Small beginnings
The Salvation Army commenced in Redcliffe as an outpost of the Nundah Salvation Army on 20 March 1954 with the appointment of Lieutenant Ian Cutmore from the Training College Sydney. He held the first public meeting in the local RSL Hall. One week later, meetings for children began, and on 29 March, a meeting of special interest for ladies, known as the Home League, supported by ladies of the Nundah Home League, was held. This plan carried through for 20 months, while the first hall (pictured right) was erected on the corner of Irene and Constance Streets by Salvationists Oscar Grindley and H Hinkley. The Salvation Army in Redcliffe began as a corps (Salvation Army church) in its own right on 19 January, 1956, with its first officer Lieutenant Ronald Weaver.
