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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
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.
[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 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]
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
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 ...
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 ...
British Red Cross parcel from the First World War. Red Cross parcel refers to packages containing mostly food, tobacco and personal hygiene items sent by the International Association of the Red Cross to prisoners of war (POWs) during the First and Second World Wars, [1] as well as at other times. It can also refer to medical parcels and so ...