LIEUTENANT COLONEL FRANK MORRIS

From his very earliest years the Lieutenant Colonel has been actively engaged in Salvation Army warfare, when as a boy, he and his brothers use to accompany their father, Major Richard Morris on many weekend campaigns.

At the age of sixteen, Lieutenant Colonel Morris became a Cadet and served his cadetship as secretary to the Territorial Commander. As a Lieutenant he was attached to Headquarters. In 1893 he was appointed chief assistant in the office of the Provincial Commander for Eastern Ontario, located in Kingston.

Recalled to Headquarters in 1896, he became private secretary to the Chief Secretary, and later served as the private secretary to the Territorial Commander Eva Booth.

For three years Lieutenant Colonel Morris stayed with the pioneer group that went to the Yukon. Following that time, he served as a cashier in Toronto. He was then appointed Assistant Editor, and for three years did very useful service in that capacity.

The Chancellorship of Newfoundland was the Lieutenant Colonel’s next appointment. In 1911, he took command of the London Division.

Lieutenant Colonel Morris is one of the survivors of the Empress of Ireland fatality and has never ceased to thank God for his miraculous escape.

Since 1914, he has held the post of Field Secretary before being appointed as Chief Secretary for the Canada West Territory.

Mrs. Morris is a great strength to Lieutenant Colonel Morris and assists him in many of his campaigns. She entered the work from Fredericton, NB on June 26, 1893 and during her twenty-seven years of Officership has been stationed at twelve Corps. Her appointments took her well over Nova Scotia and New Brunswick; the last two appointments were at Kingston and Perterboro.