On April 3, 1837, Louisa Daniell was grief stricken. Her husband had died and she was alone in India with two small infants facing a turbulent journey home. By the time of her death in 1871, she was buried with military honours as the only civilian in the Aldershot military cemetery. What had happened to this distressed widow for her to be celebrated in such a way? This biography of Louisa Daniell is a story of a committed and generous Christian woman who served her Lord in her writings, village mission work and in her pioneering missionary gospel outreach to the soldiers of the British Army through her Soldiers’ Homes. Her philanthropy became nationally renowned. Her legacy was the Miss Daniell’s Soldiers’ Homes, which in later years was to be amalgamated with the Soldiers’ and Aviators’ Scripture Readers Association (SASRA).
