Record

Performance TitleSalvation Army - Demonstration of Sympathy with Japan and Memorial Service
Performance Date13 September 1923
Performance DayThursday
Performance Time18:30
Main PerformersGeneral Bramwell Booth,
Mrs Florence Booth,
Commissioner Mapp - speakers

Troop of British Life-Saving Scouts,
Troop of British Life-Saving Guards,
Overseas Cadets
Orchestra or BandInternational Staff Band,
Chalk Farm Band,
Regent Hall Band,
The Ealing Band
ChoirsInternational Headquarters Staff Songsters,
Salvation Singers,
West London Singers,
Congress Hall Songster Brigade,
Regent Hall Songster Brigade
ConductorsMajor Fuller,
Brigadier Goldsmith
Set List'National Anthem of Japan',
'The Last Post',
Procession of the Flags of All Nations to the Platform,
'The Dead March' from Saul (Band of the International Staff),
Display of Lantern Slides of view of life in Japan,
Address (Genral Booth),
Performance NotesA memorial concert for the loss of life caused by the Great Kanto earthquake in Japan, which struck the Kanto Plain on the main Japanese island of Honshu on 1 September 1923. As a result, since 1960, the first of September has been designated by the Japanese government as Disaster Prevention Day.

The event was especially to commemorate the Salvation Army missionaries and officers who had died in the disaster. The National Headquarters of the Salvation Army in Tokyo had been burned fowm and its hospital destroyed.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1923/38)
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1923/38The Salvation Army - Demonstration of Sympathy with Japan and Memorial Service13 September 1923
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
IegoseapuliheahSalvation Army - Demonstration of Sympathy with Japan and Memorial Service1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/420Booth; William Bramwell (8 March 1856-16 June 1929); CH; British Second General of the Salvation Army
DS/UK/2001Booth; Florence Eleanor Soper (1861-1957); English wife of Bramwell Booth, Second General of The Salvation Army and women's social work pioneer
DS/UK/175Salvation Army; 1865-; British Protestant church
DS/UK/6665Salvation Army; International Staff Band (ISB); 1891-; International brass band
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