David Mathias Rees (1858 - 1914)

Died 29 May 1914 at about age 56 in Fleuve St-Laurent, Québec

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Biographie

Ce profil est un passager de l'Empress of Ireland le 29 mai 1914.

Biography

This profile is a passerger of the Empress of Ireland on May 29, 1914.

The late Commissioner David M. Rees entered the Salvation Army Service from Reading in 1882. He was at the time of his death Territorial commissioner for Canada for the second time. He was at one time Principal of the International Training College in London, and later became Field Secretary for the United Kingdom, assuming afterwards the office of Territorial Commissioner for South Africa and Sweden. He married Captain Ruth Babington in the year 1885.

The last official function performed by Commissioner Rees was the conduct of the farewell service at the Salvation Army Temple on Wednesday night. On that occasion he was full of life and spirits. Every speaker on the platform was stimulated by his enthusiastic and delightfully humorous address. At the close he leaned over the desk during the singing of "God be with you till we meet again/' and shook hands with a group of young men in the front seats, perfect strangers to him, but brothers in their presence at the service.

Sources

• Empress of Ireland 2nd class passengers List, Compiled by Geoffrey E Whitfield and Chris Stringer, http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime/visit/floor-plan/liners/empress/

• The tragic story of Empress of Ireland https://archive.org/stream/tragicstoryofemp00marsuoft/tragicstoryofemp00marsuoft_djvu.txt