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Brigadier General Robert James Loyd-Lindsay, 1st Baron Wantage, VC, KCB, VD (17 April 1832 – 10 June 1901) was a British soldier, politician, philanthropist, benefactor to Wantage, and first chairman and co-founder of the British National Society for Aid to the Sick and Wounded in War (later the British Red Cross Society), for which he crucially obtained the patronage of Queen Victoria.
Somerset Maugham [14] – volunteer British Red Cross ambulance corps; Charles Nordhoff [14] – volunteer American Field Service; William Seabrook [13] [14] – American Field Service; Robert W. Service [23] – British Red Cross volunteer; Olaf Stapledon [24] – Friends' Ambulance Unit volunteer; Gertrude Stein – volunteer in France
Britain agreed to the request and the British Joint War Organisation (British Red Cross and Order of St John) worked with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRS) to organise the relief from Lisbon. [46]: 165 The arrival at the end of December 1944 of the ICRC ship SS Vega bringing Red Cross parcels certainly saved lives. The ship ...
The VAD system was founded in 1909 with the help of the British Red Cross and Order of St John. By the summer of 1914 there were over 2,500 Voluntary Aid Detachments in Britain. By the summer of 1914 there were over 2,500 Voluntary Aid Detachments in Britain.
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.
24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. ... British Red Cross Museum curator Mehzebin Adam-Suter said: “These never-before-seen ...
The British Red Cross provides educational resources for teachers and trained peer education volunteers. [23] In September 2008 [24] the British Red Cross launched an alternate reality game called Traces of Hope to help educate people about the work the Red Cross does in conflict areas and the effect war has on civilians. [25]
The archives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) are based in Geneva and were founded in 1863 at the time of the ICRC's inception. [1] It has the dual function to manage both current records and historical archives. [2] The general historical archives are openly accessible to the general public up to 1975. [1]