Today Dawn and I had the pleasure to spend the day in the company of the fine people at the HQ of the Armed Forces Christian Union (AFCU) and the Soliders' and Airmen's Scripture Readers Association (SASRA) at Havelock House in Aldershot. Both organisations have a wealth of largely unused archives, and the iPad was busy taking hundreds of photographs of information to be pored over at a future date. Of particular note was the personal Bible of Lt-Gen Arthur Smith. It is encased in the AFCU hall and in a 1941 issue of the then Officers' Christian Union magazine, Practical Christianity, he recounted the experience which caused the damage to his Bible. I have put it here in its entirety due to its concise and engaging nature:
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