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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 ...
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]
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.
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.
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
Never-before-seen colourised photographs of British Red Cross volunteers caring for D-Day troops and other soldiers during the Second World War have been released to mark the 80th anniversary of ...
Founded in January 1915 under approval of the Anglo-French Hospital Committee of the British Red Cross Society, London, the hospital of 110 beds was conducted under military command of the French army's Service de Santé. The hospital's first military casualties arrived on 27 January 1915 from the Argonne Forest battlefront. In February 1915 ...
At the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, Fabian Ware, a director of the Rio Tinto Company, found that he was too old, at age 45, to join the British Army. [7] He used the influence of Rio Tinto chairman, Viscount Milner, to become the commander of a mobile unit of the British Red Cross.