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The British Red Cross also provides assistance in recovery after the immediate post-disaster situation, helping prepare communities for future emergencies and facilitating long-term development. Muriel Skeet, a British nurse, was the Nursing Advisor and Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) to the British Red Cross Society from 1970 until 1978. During ...
In 1909, she was elected to the Scottish branch of the British Red Cross Society council and became the founding president of the Red Cross branch in Fife, and remained president from 1910 to 1914 and from 1922 until her death. She helped establish Red Cross branches, Voluntary Aid Detachments and the Territorial Force Nursing Service in ...
Among the 187 national societies admitted to the General Assembly of the International Federation as full members or observers, about 25–30 regularly work as PNS in other countries. The most active of those are the American Red Cross, the British Red Cross, the German Red Cross, and the Red Cross societies of Sweden and Norway.
British Red Cross: Welsh: Y Groes Goch Brydeinig: 4 August 1870: American Red Cross: 21 May 1881: Uruguayan Red Cross: Spanish: Cruz Roja Uruguaya: 5 March 1897: Uzbekistan Red Crescent Society Uzbek: O‘zbekiston Qizil Yarim Oy Jamiyati: 14 November 1925: Vanuatu Red Cross Society: 1992: Venezuelan Red Cross Society
The Voluntary Medical Service Medal is a medal awarded by St Andrew's First Aid and formerly by the British Red Cross. It was instituted in 1932 at the direction of George V . [ 2 ]
The Central Prisoners of War Committee was a British organisation established in 1916 jointly by the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St John at the request of the government. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Its function was to co-ordinate aid, especially food and comfort parcels, [ 1 ] for British prisoners of war in Axis POW camps and also internment ...
In recognition of her work in the Second World War, she was appointed Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) in the 1948 New Year Honours. [7] After the King invested her as a Dame Grand Cross, the Queen, as President of the British Red Cross Society, presented her with a diamond brooch at a party at Buckingham Palace. [8]
The British Red Cross Badge of Honour, instituted in 1958, is an award badge given to people who show exceptional service to the British Red Cross. [1] Northallerton - British Red Cross Centre The British Red Cross Centre in Northallerton at the junction of East Road and Zetland Street. The Badge has 3 classes: