Lucy Booth

Commissioner Lucy Milward Booth-Hellberg (28 April 1868 – 18 July 1953) was the eighth and youngest child of Catherine and William Booth, the Founder of The Salvation Army.

On 18 October 1894 Lucy married Colonel Emanuel Daniel Hellberg, a Swedish officer.

[2] Lucy returned to India with her new husband and they together commanded the Indian Territory, taking on the names Ruhani and Raj-Singh respectively.

For a brief time she was engaged to Commissioner Cornelius Obadiah Phelps, before her brother Bramwell ended it.

[1] In 1933 she was admitted to the Salvation Army's most prestigious award, the Order of the Founder, "for long and exceptional service under peculiarly difficult circumstances, together with her readiness at all times to answer to the call of duty, particularly in the earlier years in India and France, and, latterly, in South America".