Herbert Booth

[1] Herbert, who was born in Penzance, Cornwall, received little formal elementary education but became a student at Allesly Park College and the Congregational Institute at Nottingham.

[1] At the age of twenty, Herbert began helping his sister Kate Booth in building up The Salvation Army in France.

Whilst appointed to the territory Herbert also founded the Hamodava Tea Company, which pioneered fair trade in the beverage industry, and secured funding for The Salvation Army's work in Australia and New Zealand.

Herbert, whose relations with his brother Bramwell had gone from bad to worse, hoped that some close contact with his father might help heal his rift with London.

Seventy projects were launched to celebrate his father's seventieth birthday, one of which was the building of an officer training garrison at Victoria Parade, East Melbourne.

To enlist trainees, Herbert wrote and directed Soldiers of the Cross, a recruiting show that featured stories of early Christian martyrs.

Soldiers of the Cross, written and directed by Herbert, again with Joe Perry as cinematographer, premiered at the Melbourne Town Hall on 13 September 1900.