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1947 – National Service

In 1952 RAF Chaplain-in-Chief, Canon Leslie Wright (who later became a member of the NMBS committee), sought and received the authority to hold a Mission to the RAF. Small teams of missionaries travel for a week at a time to almost every RAF station both at home and...

Amalgamation!

SGM was formed in 1888 and had flourished such that it could take NMBS under its wing and gave hundreds of thousands of pounds to assist the Bible distribution efforts.

One Hundred Years Old!

Egypt: Wolseley’s campaign of 1882 was consider one of the best managed expedition in British military history, the country continued to claim attention through to 1889. There is a record of 200 New Testaments being sent in 1888. in 1900 Bibles were sent to the...

1830 – 1853: Military Decline

The army cried out for reform from every point of view. Recruits were still mostly drawn from the lowest social class and were treated, “alternately as a criminal to be punished with flogging and as a child whose every action should be watched and...

1815 – 1830

During this period there are many testimonies of the Society giving out Scriptures on many occasions. The desire for Bibles was strong when very few were to be found out in areas of conflict, or, in defensive positions, such as the 74 Martello Towers around the...