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[1] [2] In August 1914, just after the outbreak of war in Europe, the British Red Cross and the Order of St John proposed to form a Joint War Organisation with the intention of working with common aims, reducing duplication of effort and providing St John personnel with the protection of the Red Cross; [3] an agreement was concluded on 24 ...
The Royal Irish Rifles in a communications trench on the first day on the Somme, 1 July 1916 The Victoria Cross (VC) was awarded 628 times to 627 recipients for action in the First World War (1914–1918). The Victoria Cross is a military decoration awarded for valor "in the face of the enemy" to members of armed forces of some Commonwealth countries and previous British Empire territories. It ...
Frederick Leney – British Red Cross Searcher, 1914–1916; Alexander H. Rice Jr. – volunteer physician, explorer in South America; Gertrude Stein – volunteer driver for French hospitals, American poet, playwright, feminist; Ralph Vaughan Williams – stretcher bearer in France and Greece, British composer [31] – Royal Army Medical Corps
Pages in category "British World War I recipients of the Victoria Cross" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 388 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
World War I recipients of the Victoria Cross (13 C, 5 P) Pages in category "British military personnel of World War I" The following 135 pages are in this category, out of 135 total.
Rosalind Mary Denny, Wounded and Missing Enquiry Department, British Red Cross Society; Marie Devonshire, Red Cross Work, Egypt; Gladys Helen Dick, Welfare Supervisor at a National Projectile Factory; Frances Joan Dickinson, British Red Cross Central Prisoners of War Committee; Elizabeth Amy Dixon, Labour Department, Ministry of National Service
British people of World War I (1914-1918). ... British World War I recipients of the Victoria Cross (2 C, 388 P) W. Welsh people of World War I (1 C, 10 P)
The Joint War Organisation (JWO) was a combined operation of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St John of Jerusalem during the World Wars. It was first created in 1914 and ceased operations when World War I ended in 1919; the organisation was re-formed upon the British entry into World War II in 1939 and was active until its permanent disbanding in 1947.