Salvation Army Sergeant Major with little girl

Jun. 06, 1965 - The Colonel in the British Army who prefers to spend Sunday a a private in the salvation army; For 12 hours every Sunday, Colonel George Crooks returns to the ranks. He throws off his jacket with the two pipe and crown badges of a full Colonel in the regular army. Then he puts on the uniform of a bandsman in the salvation army. He spends his Sundays puffing hard into a house phone playing Onward Christian Soldiers probably somewhere in Scho. COme Monday morning, Colonel Crocks a dispensing the good word of the Queen regulations as commanding officer of the royal army ordinance corp training unit at Aldershot. There is just one more rank complication in the Colonel's life. On Sundays as he puts on his private's uniform, his wife also marches with the salvation army but as a sergeant major. Photo Shows.Colonel Crooks wife Lellian, a Sergeant Major in the Salvation Army (part time) speaks to a little girl during an open-air service near Oxford Street yesterday. In the background her husband can be seen playing the sousaphone in the band

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