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The William Booth rose, developed by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, was named in his honour. William Booth Memorial Training College in Denmark Hill, London, the College for Officer Training of The Salvation Army in the United Kingdom, is named after him, [24] as is the William Booth Primary School in his native Nottingham and William Booth ...
The question was referred by Booth to the admiralty, who, without any evidence beyond Booth's partial statement, directed the commander-in-chief to "cause the colours of the Golden Horse to be delivered to Captain Booth as a mark of honour which we Judge he hath well deserved", and also an appointed share of the value of the prize. [DNB 1]
Booth wrote In Darkest England while his wife, Catherine Booth, lay ill.Catherine died two weeks before the book was published. Booth wrote a tribute to Catherine in the book's preface, expressing his gratitude that "amid the ceaseless suffering of a dreadful malady, my dying wife found relief in considering and developing the suggestions which I have set forth".
Members of the Salvation Army being pursued by the Skeleton Army with its distinctive skull and crossbones banner c. 1882. The Skeleton Army was a diffuse group from Weston-super-Mare, active particularly in Southern England, that opposed and disrupted The Salvation Army's marches against alcohol in the late 19th century and best known for an attack in Bethnal Green in London.
In all he travelled 500,000 miles with General Booth. After William Booth's death Lawley continued as aide-de-camp to General Bramwell Booth, whom he had first met in 1877. [11] He returned from a second tour of the United States in 1921 suffering from a continual heaviness and weariness and what felt like indigestion. General Bramwell Booth ...
The ideals taught at Parris Island “are the best of what human beings can do,” said William P. Nash, a retired Navy psychiatrist who deployed with Marines to Iraq as a combat therapist. “It’s these values that give you some chance of doing something good in a war, and limiting collateral damage, however right or wrong” the war itself is.
In April 2012, Martz was 26 and a Marine sergeant already on his third combat deployment, in the Kajaki District of southern Afghanistan. He’d lost a good friend in combat, 22-year-old Lance Cpl. William H. Crouse IV, of Woodruff, S.C. Martz’s unit, 1st Battalion 10th Marines, had taken other casualties.
The fatal shooting of President William McKinley in the Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. "Goodbye, all, goodbye. It is God's way. His will be done." [1] [note 1] — William McKinley, president of the United States (14 September 1901), dying after being shot on 6 September