OBITUARY

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 92, 20 April 1939, Page 19

OBITUARY

MRS. COMMISSIONER LAMB.

News- was received.from International Headquarters of the. Salvation Army on Tuesday that the death had occurred of Mrs. Commissioner Lamb.

One of its best known names among The Army's "woman warriors" in Great Britain in the mid-eighties was 4hat of Captain Minnie Clinton, as the late Mrs. Commissioner Lamb was then known. Married in 1888 to Commissioner David C. Lamb, then a;young Staff Officer, she was a strength.to the Commissioner in all his undertakings. Mrs. Lamb was a Justice of the Peace, and a Governor' of the Lock' Hospital, England, arid on .the executive; council; of the Lunacy Law : Reform "Association. '" Converted as a girl in her teens in an Army meeting m the North of England, Mrs.' Lamb did notable service as a Field Officer, At Wick, in the far north of Scotland, she saw hundreds converted. Appointed to open The Army's work at Perth, she met with much opposition, on one occasion being chased by a* angry mob. "It was with a very proud. yet humble spirit," wrote Mrs. Lamb in the "War Cry," "that as a Salvationist I was privileged to stand in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia some time ago to-read prayers in the House, and it was rilled that the Salvation Army uniform was proper to the occasion." • The Army has suffered a great loss in the'passing of this courageous and devoted spirit and much sympathy is extended to Commissioner Lamb and his family.