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 //Western Morning News, July 1, 1929 (Plymouth, Devon, England)//
+====Colonel Wycliffe Booth at Dumfries====
+Colonel Wycliffe Booth, grandson of [[William Booth|General William Booth]], the founder of the Salvation Army, general secretary of the army in Scotland and Ireland, and Mrs. Wycliffe Booth visited Dumfries over the week-end and conducted the services in the Salvation Army Citadel. Colonel Booth also delivered interesting lectures dealing with the work of the Salvation Army during the war and on the world tours of his father, [[Bramwell Booth|General Bramwell Booth]].
+On Saturday evening, Colonel Booth addressed a large audience on "The Salvation Army in Wartime." Ex-Provost Kelly presided, and in introducing Colonel Booth spoke of the development of the Salvation Army since its early days, and particularly of visits of the founder to Dumfries. He said that General Booth visited the town in the early eighties to present a flag to the local Salvation Army body. There were then no ministers or magistrates to welcome him, and the proceedings passed off with little general public interest. When the Army was first setup in Dumfries the leaders were prosecuted for obstructing the streets with their open-air meetings. Sentences of fine or imprisonment were imposed, and as the result the first officers, Captain Small and Lieut. Robinson, became inmates for a few hours of the old prison in Buccleuch Street until a friend paid the fine which they themselves refused to pay. Lieut. Robinson spent the remainder of his days in the town and was a respected member of the Parish Council and Town Council. When General Booth returned to the town in August, 1905, in the course of a tour of Britain, his reception was a much happier one. Half an hour before his arrival the streets were thronged with people anxious to get a glimpse of the aged, white-haired General as he went through the streets in his white car with red wheels. He was received by Provost Glover, and in acknowledgment said that in former days people had pelted him with mud and stones and rotten eggs, but in his journey from Dover he had been pelted with flowers and blessings and kisses, and in Dumfries they had started to pelt him with £5 notes.
+Colonel Booth delivered a most interesting address descriptive of the work of the Salvation Army, particularly in the blitzed areas of Britain and among the troops.
+On Sunday afternoon Colonel Booth spoke on "Round the World with General Booth."
+Mr. James Hutcheon, town clerk, presided over a large gathering, and in welcoming Colonel Booth said they did so for the sake of his great ancestor, who was one of the great men of Britain, and a fortunate man in that he dreamed a great dream and lived to see it come true, that the Salvation Army should girdle the earth. In these days great plans were being made for the future, but he believed that unless they built Christ into the foundations of these new plans they would fail.
+Colonel Booth delivered a most interesting and informative lecture dealing with his world tour as aide-de-camp to his father. When his grandfather, the founder of the Salvation Army, died in 1912 the army was at work in fifty countries. To-day it was working in a hundred different lands. He himself had been privileged to visit forty-six or forty-seven different lands and to observe the work that the Salvation Army was doing in these countries. It was a most gratifying feature to find that people who adopted Christianity remained faithful to it.
+Prayer was offered by the Rev. P. MacLeod, and the Scripture lesson was read by the Rev. H. A. Cockburn.
+At both services selections were rendered by the united bands and by the choir. Votes of thanks were accorded on the call of Captain Snape, commanding officer in Dumfries.
+//Dumfries and Galloway Standard, February 21, 1945 (Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland)//
+====W. Wycliffe Booth To Visit Hamilton====
+Distinguished visitors to the city this weekend will be Commissioner and Mrs. William Wycliffe Booth. The commissioner, who has recently been appointed as national leader of the Salvation Army in Canada, brings to his post a heritage of Salvation Army knowledge and tradition. He is the grandson of the founder of the Salvation Army, [[William Booth|General William Booth]] and son of the second general [[Bramwell Booth]]. His mother, Mrs. General Bramwell Booth, still lives in the family cottage at High Barnet, England, and is now more than 90 years of age.
+**Commissioner Booth will lead youth councils on Sunday, March 27, in the Central Secondary School at 10:30 a.m., 2:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.**
+Wycliffe Booth was born at High Barnet, England, and entered the work of the Salvation Army from that centre in 1916. During the years of his boyhood and youth his parents were traveling extensively in the army's rapidly expanding evangelistic and social service work. His life was lived in an intense "army" atmosphere. Most of his relatives were officers of the army, and held leading positions.
+In 1923, he married Captain Renee Peyron, whose father and mother, Commissioner and Mrs. Peyron, were the territorial leaders of the Salvation Army in France. Commissioner and Mrs. Booth have five children, four of whom are Salvation Army officers. The youngest, Reine-Blanche, aged 16 years, has accompanied her parents to Canada.
+Canada will not be entirely new to Commissioner Booth. Some years ago he visited the Dominion as ADC to his father, General Bramwell Booth. Two other members of the Booth family have preceded him as leaders of the army in this country; an uncle, [[Herbert Booth|Commandant Herbert Booth]], and an aunt, [[Evangeline Booth|Commander Evangeline Booth]], both well known to thousands of Canadians.
+Commissioner Booth was one of the nominees for the position of general when the [[High Council]] of the Salvation Army met in May, 1954, in London, and elected [[Wilfred Kitching|General Wilfred Kitching]], successor to [[Albert Osborn|General Albert Osborn]].
+A highlight in this series of youth councils will be presented on Saturday night at 7:45 o'clock in the Central Secondary School when a youth program will be the feature. Included is singing, vocal and instrumental music, entertainment and demonstration with conviction. All items are the product of Salvation Army youth. Commissioner Booth will preside.
+During the weekend activities, the commissioner will be supported by Lt.-Col. H. Newman, Brig. M. Flannigan and Brig. Leonard Evenden. Brig. Evenden, the divisional young people's secretary, is the officer responsible for all arrangements.
+//The Hamilton Spectator, March 23, 1955 (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)//
+====Booth Gets Promotion====
+Commissioner Wycliffe Booth, head of the Salvation Army in Canada and Bermuda for nearly 10 years, is being appointed to the office of international commissioner of the army.
+The commissioner, a grandson of army founder William Booth, will represent [[Frederick Coutts|Gen. Frederick Coutts]], world leader of the Salvation Army, at a series of commemorative gatherings in various parts of the world to mark the centenary of the army in 1965.
+The appointment, announced today, is effective June 23, Commissioner Booth will be replaced as head of the army in Canada and Bermuda by Commissioner Edward Grinstead, now in charge of the army's evangelical work in the United Kingdom.
+//The Vancouver Sun, April 4, 1964 (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)//
+====Salvation Army Leader Visits City====
+Grandpa would be proud of his grandson - W. Wycliffe Booth.
+Grandpa is Gen. William Booth, the bearded patriarch who founded the Salvation Army 100 years ago in England. Booth, who died in 1912, cured Wycliffe of his stuttering shortly after the turn of the century.
+"He made me promise I would speak in public once a week and then he'd check up on me," said Commissioner Wycliffe Booth.
+Commissioner Booth, 70, headed the Salvation Army in France, and now is in semi-retirement. He has just returned from 3 1/2 months in Africa.
+Commissioner Booth and his French wife Renee came to Detroit to launch the Salvation Army centenary observance in Detroit.
+If Grandfather Booth were alive today, what would he think of the Salvation Army?
+"He would think we were slow to use new methods" said Commissioner Booth.
+"I think he would try to have a message every week on Telstar and TV and use all modern media to a greater extent.
+"He would be a little impatient about social work addressed strictly to social needs, such as the care for the aged, hospitals and children's work.
+"He would want to know what is being done in the area of great social evils, drinking and drugs and the like," said the commissioner.
+"He would be concerned with the morals of young people."
+//Detroit Free Press, February 5, 1965 (Detroit, Michigan)//
 ====External====
   * [[https://salvationist.ca/archives-and-museum/people/wycliffe-booth/|Commissioners Wycliffe and Renee Booth]]