Cooma Greats - Edith Spicer & Edward Slattery

The Salvation Army in Cooma has produced its fair share of outstanding Salvationists. An early convert, Edith Spicer, was just 16 when she left Cooma for Melbourne to become a Salvation Army officer. The Salvation Army history book Booth’s Drum: The Salvation Army in Australia 1880-1980 records that both as a single officer and as the wife of Frederick Saunders … she was to be one of the Army’s most dynamic speakers and teachers in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. The book also profiles Edward Slattery of Cooma, who was a teenage butcher when he was won for Christ and decided to become an officer. He entered training in 1898 and his long and honourable service as an active officer concluded with a term as Chief Secretary (second in command) in Australia South.