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Newsletters from a Salvation Army woman officer in Zambia (7) 1971-73

After returning from six months’ “Homeland Furlough” in 1970 and a short return to Bulawayo, my parents were promoted to Brigadiers and appointed Officers Commanding, Zambia Command, based in Lusaka, the capital city. They were there for just over two years (1971-73), after which their last appointment was in South Africa. After three years working in the Magistrates’ Courts and becoming a public prosecutor in 1970, I moved to Vereeniging in South Africa to attend a small Pentecostal Bible College in March 1971. Carol had begun nursing training in Salisbury, but withdrew and would pick it up again in Canada after she moved there with her husband and daughter in 1980. After a few years in Canada, they moved to the United States and live on the south-western coast of Florida. P.O. Box RW 193 Ridgeway, Lusaka. Zambia. June 1971. This is the first opportunity I have had of writing to our friends since we arrived in Zambia, as we have been kept very busy. We had a long wait before w...