In Depth:  Jamie Campbell

Between 8 August and 11 November, The Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Scripture Readers is asking churches, Association (SASRA) join a to individuals small groups and Prayer Event called 100days.

SASRA shares the gospel with serving personnel in the Army and the RAF. It is able to go ‘behind the wire’ where local churches can’t, with 16 uniformed Scripture Readers, all of whom have served in the Military.

On 1 April 1918, military history was made as the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Service merged and became the Royal Air Force (RAF) – the world’s first independent air force.

This took place during some of the most bitter fighting of World War I. Soviet Russian forces had signed a peace treaty with the Central Powers at Brest-Litovsk on 3 March 1918, ending Russia’s participation in WWI. This allowed the German Army to transfer large numbers of men and their equipment from the Eastern to the Western Front.