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COMMANDING OFFICERS

 

Majors Robert & Dana Reid

are our Commanding Officers They came to us from The Salvation Army Community church in Whitby, Ontario.

 


Commanding Officers at Reading Central

The following is a list of all Commanding and Associate officers at Reading Central since Captain Charles Harrison 'opened fire' in 1881.

1881

Captain Charles Harrison

1881

Captain Mary Dowell

1881

Captain Bamford

1881

Captain & Mrs Isaac Skidmore

1881

Lieutenant Moore

All of the above were at the corps in its first month of operation

1881

Captain Amelia Heath

1882

Captain William Dear

1882

Captain & Mrs Charles Hayter

1883

Captain & Mrs Albert Coles

1883

Captain Mary Dack & Lieut Fleet

1883

Captain George Brain

1883

Captain & Mrs John Wills

1984

Captain Catherine Gaines

1884

Captain Frederick Doidge

1885

Captain Agnes Barrett

1886

Captain Carrie Brelsford

1886

Captain Myles Ashbourne

1886

Captain & Mrs William Mundin

1887

Capt. & Mrs Frederick Falcus

1887

Captain & Mrs Frank Buckle

1888

Captain Anker Deans

1888

Captain William Warman

1889

Captain W H Nelms

1889

Captain William Sansom

1889

Captain William Pike

1890

Captain Albert Streeter

1890

Captain Jane Young

1891

Captain & Mrs Alfred Ball

1891

Captain & Mrs Henry Cooke

1891

Captain & Mrs James Hodder

1892

Captain William Munro

1892

Captain & Mrs William Ebbs

1893

Captain & Mrs James McDuff

1893

Captain Maggie Balmer

1894

Captain & Mrs William Green

1894

Ensign & Mrs H Witchurch

1895

Captain Alfred Gattrell

1895

Ensign & Mrs David Leib

1896

Adjutant James Hadden

1896

Ensign Tom Ward

1896

Ensign Ellen Dale

1896

Captain & Mrs Charles Goddard

1897

Captain John Murray

1898

Ensign & Mrs Fred Earl

1899

Adjutant & Mrs H Gallant

1899

Ensign & Mrs John Griffiths

1900

Captain & Mrs Alex Gibson

1901

Captain Joseph Langbridge

1901

Ensign & Mrs John Skinner

1902

Adjutant & Mrs William Dorey

1902

Adjutant & Mrs Arthur Kemble

1903

Adjutant & Mrs Thomas Reed

1904

Ensign & Mrs William Dungey

1905

Adjutant & Mrs Horace Mann

1907

Adjutant Kate Lee

1907

Captain Webster

1908

Adjutant & Mrs A Fenoulhet

1909

Adjutant Annie Singer
Captain Reynolds

1910

Adjutant & Mrs Ernest Simkin

1913

Adjutant & Mrs William Hall

1915

Commandant & Mrs Frederick Lougheed

1917

Commandant & Mrs Charles Hoy

1919

Captain Dora Booth
Lieutenant Henrietta Wingate
Lieut. Harlow

1920

Ensign & Mrs Arthur Knapman
Captain Carl Knott

1922

Commandant & Mrs Joseph Huxtep

1922

Commandant & Mrs J Capper

1924

Commandant Cox

1924

Adjutant & Mrs Robert Jones

1926

Ensign & Mrs Clifford Grinsted

1927

Adjutant & Mrs John Hill

1929

Adjutant & Mrs Alex Matthews

1930

Adjutant & Mrs Arthur Oram

1932

Major Emma McDowell
Adjutant Rhoda Playford

1933

Major & Mrs Albert Barnes

1935

Adjutant Amy Bowler
Captain Eva Ward

1936

Major & Mrs Richard Moyse

1937

Major & Mrs James McLellan,

1939

Major & Mrs Horace Mead
Lieutenant Cecil Watts

1941

Major & Mrs Alex Nicholson

1944

Major & Mrs George Shipley

1945

Brigadier & Mrs Eli Woolley

1945

Major Margaret Fraser
Adjutant Alice Walton

1946

Major & Mrs Reginald Bennett
Lieutenant Jan Beunders*
Lieutenant Stuart Booth*

1948

Major & Mrs George Easey
Lieutenant Bramwell Baird*

1950

Major & Mrs Joseph Parker

1952

Major & Mrs Herbert Parkhouse

1953

Brigadier & Mrs Thomas Boniface

1955

Brigadier Kath Sutton
Major Dorothy Hunt

1957

Brigadier & Mrs George Scott

1960

Brigadier & Mrs James Gilman

1962

Brigadier & Mrs Joseph Wright

1963

Brigadier & Mrs John T Cook

1966

Brigadier & Mrs Will Rich

1971

Major & Mrs Tom Cross

1972

Major & Mrs Ralph Pearce

1975

Major & Mrs John Crashley

1978

Major & Mrs Alan Atherton

1981

CSM Fred Tompkins

1982

Major & Mrs Lincoln Parkhouse

1984-85

Lieutenant Amaro Pereira*

1985

Major & Mrs Laurie Hills

1988

CSM Brian Parkhouse

1989

Major & Mrs Clifford Hurcum

1993

CSM Brian Parkhouse

1993

Majors Alan and Barbara Lyne

1994-96

Lieutenant Graham Barratt*

1996-98

Lieutenant Ruth Hardy*

1997

Majors Leslie and Eileen Cook

1998-99

Captain Christine Kingscott*

1998-02

Captain Ian Woodgate*

2000-02

Captain Sue Woodgate*

2001-06

Major Samuel Edgar

2006

Majors Robert and Dana Reid