LIEUT. COMMISSIONERS CHARLES AND ANNIE RICH

Charles Rich was brought up in the village of Hailsham in Sussex, about seven miles from Eastbourne. He was converted as an indirect result of the Army’s operations. Passing one night, young Charles Rich was impressed by a sentence or two that he heard and going home to his bedroom he there gave his life into the care of God through faith in Jesus.

His Career as an Officer began when after a period of training at the Tottenham Training garrison, he was sent to Stock, in Essex, the considered as one of the hardest Corps in the British Field.

His second Corps was Stepney where he held meetings on Mile End Waste, Chelmsford and Norland Castle followed.

At the latter Corps he was married to Captain Annie Lee, a Field Officer of much experience who commanded several Corps with great success. They were appointed to Marylebone,

At Tottenham, Liverpool, Norwich and Brighton, in the north of Ireland, at Manchester, Plymouth, South and East London as Divisional Commander, and later as Field Secretary, the Commissioner has served God and the Army to the best of his ability and has been the means of Salvation to many hundreds.