1. Commissioner Charles Henry Jeffries was a British pioneer Salvationist and notable convert, after he left the Skeleton Army and attained the third highest rank possible as an Officer in The Salvation Army.
16 Facts About Charles Jeffries
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Charles Jeffries was the grandfather of actor and director Lionel Jeffries.
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Charles Jeffries was proselytized with between 20 and 30 other 'Skeletons' at a meeting they had come to disrupt in Whitechapel; after his conversion he started to attend a Salvation Army corps, soon becoming an active Soldier.
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At times they would follow me home singing, 'Charles Jeffries will help to roll the old chariot along' - and, thank God, I am doing it.
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In late 1882 Charles Jeffries attended training college, and became an Officer.
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Charles Jeffries was among the first Salvation Army officers to arrive in Australia, landing in Sydney in August 1884, and where he was Social Secretary for a period.
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Charles Jeffries was imprisoned in Sydney in 1889 for seven days with seven other Salvationists for preaching in the open.
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In October 1899 Charles Jeffries was appointed Provincial Commander for Wales.
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In 1907 Colonel Charles Jeffries was appointed Assistant Field Secretary at the National Headquarters in London, and in 1911 became Field Secretary, making him responsible for appointing and promoting some 2,000 Corps Officers.
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Charles Jeffries served in China from February 1918 until April 1919, when General Bramwell Booth summoned him back to London where he was appointed Commissioner.
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In January 1922 Charles Jeffries was appointed as Principal of the International Training College at Clapton, a post he held for nine and a half years.
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Charles Jeffries had opened our work in China, and he loved China.
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Charles Jeffries was British Commissioner from 1931 to 1935, making him responsible for The Salvation Army's evangelical work in the United Kingdom.
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Charles Jeffries was one of the seven Commissioners that called for the first Salvation Army High Council and was notably involved in the controversy that surrounded the Council's vote that Bramwell Booth should be removed as General of The Salvation Army.
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Charles Jeffries married his Australian wife, Captain Martha Harris in 1889, and with her had seven children: Arthur Jeffries ; Alice Jeffries ; Howard Jeffries ; Henry Charles Jeffries ; Bernard Jeffries ; Ernest Jeffries, and Eveline Irene Jeffries.
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Charles Jeffries retired from active service at the end of 1935.