COLONEL ALBERT GASKIN

Albert was converted at the little English town of Kegworth, in Leicester as the result of a testimony from the lips of a saved drunkard; he immediately became an active soldier and soon Local Officer.

He left the Training Garrison in 1885 by assisting the “Rescue Cavalry Corps Van, and eleven Corps commands followed including Lincolnshire, Camberwell Corps. Next came his first Staff appointments as Young People Secretary for the Manchester Division in May 1888. Similar appointments followed. Then came positions as Divisional Secretary, as Chancellor, then Training College work after which he was made a Divisional Officer and held such important commands as the North and Central London Division and Secretary for the London Province, and in 1896 he was appointed General Secretary for Canada and Newfoundland.

During 21 years of service in Canada, Colonel Gaskin occupied the positions of General Secretary, Training College Principal in Canada. He then returned to Territorial Headquarters as Field Secretary. Following the 1914 Empress of Ireland disaster where most od the Army’s senior leaders had been promoted to glory, Colonel Gaskin was the appointed to Chief Secretary for the Canada Territory.