Introduction

Biography

After a stint as a print­er’s ap­pren­tice, Ew­ens be­came a re­port­er and com­po­si­tor for The Mer­cu­ry in Cleve­don, Som­er­set.

He lat­er went into the rail­road­ing field, work­ing for the Great Western Rail­road in Pad­ding­ton, then for the Mex­i­can Rail­way.

He may have gained some Span­ish lang­uage ex­pe­ri­ence at the Mex­i­can Rail­way: he sub­se­quent­ly tra­veled to Ven­e­zue­la for the South Am­er­ican Mis­sion­ary So­ci­ety. Up­on his re­turn to Bri­tain, he be­gan a print­ing bu­si­ness.

He joined the Sal­va­tion Ar­my (SA) af­ter a meet­ing in Lon­don’s West­bourne Park, and ev­en­tu­al­ly be­came sec­re­ta­ry to the corps in Not­ting Hill.

In 1880, he be­came ed­it­or of the SA War Cry. In 1886, he was as­signed the SA’s Dev­on Di­vi­sion, and he found­ed sev­er­al SA corps in Dev­on and West Som­ers­et.

In 1895, he was trans­ferred to Gi­bral­tar. His fi­nal move was to the Chief of Staff’s of­fice at the SA In­ter­na­tion­al Head­quar­ters, serv­ing there un­til he re­tired.