1853-1914

De­cem­ber 3, 1853, Ber­wick St. James, Wilt­shire, Eng­land.

Feb­ru­a­ry 15, 1914, Chick­er­ell, Dor­set, Eng­land.

Chick­er­ell, Dor­set, Eng­land.

After sev­er­al years of farm work, Rolfe moved to Lon­don, then Mid­dles­bor­ough, where he heard Will­iam Booth speak. He came to Christ in 1875, and joined the Christ­ian Miss­ion. In 1879, he joined the Sal­va­tion Ar­my (SA) in North Ormes­by, and went on to serve in Man­ches­ter, Sal­is­bu­ry, Dud­ley, Birm­ing­ham, Aus­tral­ia (1882-89), New Zealand (1889-92), Bright­on, Ox­ford, Ja­mai­ca (1894), and in the Staff De­part­ment and For­eign Of­fice of the SA in­ter­na­tion­al head­quar­ters (1901-3).

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