WWI witness 1916
SASRA
Bill Ransley was a Scripture Reader who visited sick and wounded soldiers in military hospitals near Boulogne, France.
In his 1916 journal1, he commented on how people responded to the gospel: ‘I made a special effort amongst the Hospital Orderlies by visiting them in their huts and inviting them to a Voluntary Service; for I had felt that perhaps the Personnel had been neglected. I explained that I would hold an informal Service at any hour of their own choice…