Salvation Army bonnet Salvation Army bonnet The Salvation Army bonnet was a millinery design worn by female members of the Salvation Army. It was introduced in 1880 in the UK and was worn as headgear by most female officers in western countries. It began to be phased out from the late 1970s. The Salvation Army bonnet was first seen on Wednesday 16 June 1880 at William and Catherine Booth's silver wedding anniversary celebration in Whitechapel, London. Its design was due, in part, to the fact that one of the cadets training at the Salvation Army's Hackney college in 1880 was a milliner from
The Salvation Army does not address any documented news events of discrimination and claims to debunk these events as urban myth. In November 2013 it was made known that the Salvation Army was referring LGBT individuals to one of several conversion therapy groups. As a response the Salvation Army removed such referrals from their website. A positional statement on the Salvation Army UK and Ireland site stated (but has since been taken down): The positional statement is, however, intended explicitly for members of the Salvation Army and the Salvation Army mission statement as of 2013 states: As of late 2013, activists were still