Catherine Bramwell-Booth

Sitter in 5 portraits
Catharine Bramwell-Booth's grandfather, William Booth, founded the Salvation Army in 1865. At eighteen, Catherine became a full-time Salvation Army officer, an occupation she retained until her retirement. She held appointments in a number of provincial centres before spending a decade training women officers at the Salvation Army's International Training College in London. In 1917 she made headlines when she led a rescue team into an area devastated by the Silvertown munitions factory explosion in West Ham, London, in which sixty people were killed. She was involved with relief work in Europe after both world wars. From 1946 she was International Secretary for Europe until she retired in 1948.