LATE GENERAL BOOTH

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 225, 19 June 1929, Page 11

LATE GENERAL BOOTH

FUNERAL SERVICE AT ALBERT HALL

THE KING’S MESSAGE OF SYMPATHY

Australian Press Association.

(Rec. June 18, 7 p.m.)

London, June 17.

General Bramwell Booth’s body will lie in state at Congress Hall, Clapton, on Friday and Saturday. General Higgins and international commissioners will conduct a funeral service at the Albert Hall on Sunday. The coffin will be taken to Army Headquarters, Queen Victoria Street, on Monday. The procession will start thence for Abney Park cemetery, where the body will be interred beside those of the General’s parents. As the procession traverses some of the most congested city streets, it may necessarily be curtailed, the principal gatherings of mourners assembling at the cemetery. The coffin will be covered with the Army flag, the General’s cap lying thereon. The widow and family request that no flowers be sent, In accordance with Army tradition. The King sent a message to the widow expressing His Majesty's deep regret and offering sympathy, adding: “With his father he will always be gratefully remembered as the promoter of the widespread, beneficent activities of the Salvation Army.” The Primate, addressing the Church Assembly, asked the Assembly to pay a tribute of respect to the honoured leader of the Army’s social work.