onal Assembly working indefatigably in war-torn
London. She became an Auxiliary Board Member in 1954 and was appointed to
the European Board of Counsellors in 1968.

PHILIP HAINSWORTH

Accepted the Faith in Bradford in 1938, and at the outbreak of War was the
first British believer to register as a Baha'i in the Armed Forces. He had
to appeal in Court when seeking exemption from being involved in the
taking of life and, being released from combatant service, was drafted
into the Royal Army Medical Corps. Prior to his release from military
service in 1946, he spent five weeks in Haifa and in the same year
pioneered to Nottingham. He was appointed Chairman of the National Youth
Committee and Secretary of the National Teaching Committee and was elected
to the National Assembly in 1947. He subsequently pioneered to Oxford and
Blackburn. In June 1951 he was one of the party of five pioneers who first
went to Dar-es-Salaam and then on to Kampala, Uganda, where he became
Secretary of the first local Spiritual Assembly in 1952 and of the
Regional National Assembly in Central and East Africa in 1956. He returned
to pioneer in the Leeds area in 1966, was elected to the National Assembly
in 1967 and is still (1979) a member.

WALTER WILKINS

Born in 1883 Walter embraced the Faith when he was about 40 years old. He
was a keen Esperantist through which he learned of the Faith. He served
for many years on the London Spiritual Assembly and was on the National
Assembly for a year in 1934. Responding to the pioneer call of the Six
Year Plan he moved to Birmingham in 1946, to Blackburn in 1947, to Norwich
in 1948, and in 1961 at the age of 78 he pioneered to Canterbury. At the
age of 82 he took a small flat in an old people's home where for the first
time in his life he was able to entertain the friends and hold Feasts and
even an assembly meeting. He passed away after an accident on 19 March
1973.

MRS ALMA CYNTHIA GREGORY

Although she remembers her mother, Louise Ginman, going from town to town
in the United States trying to find the Master, but reaching the place
shortly after He had left, and speaks with feeling of personal involvement
as a Baha'i youth, of many early meetings in London at the homes of Lady
Blomfield, Claudia Coles, Ethel Rosenberg, "Mother" George and many others
of that day, she did not formally register as a Baha'i in the British
Isles until 1942. She pioneered to Northampton in Augu