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The British Red Cross Society (Welsh: Y Groes Goch Brydeinig) is the United Kingdom body of the worldwide neutral and impartial humanitarian network the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. The society was formed in 1870, and is a registered charity with 10,500 volunteers and 3,500 staff. [3]
The Red Cross symbol. The Red Cross on white background was the original protection symbol declared at the 1864 Geneva Convention. The ideas to introduce a uniform and neutral protection symbol as well as its specific design originally came from Dr. Louis Appia, a Swiss surgeon, and Swiss General Henri Dufour, founding members of the International Committee.
British monarchy (Plantagenet): French: Dieu Et Mon Droit (God and my right / God and my right shall me defend) Dutch monarchy: French: Je Maintiendrai (I will maintain) Greek royal family : Greek: Ἰσχύς μου ἡ ἀγάπη τοῦ λαοῦ (People's love, my strength)
The organized International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is a humanitarian movement with approximately 16 million volunteers, members, and staff worldwide.It was founded to protect human life and health, to ensure respect for all human beings, and to prevent and alleviate human suffering.
Munro Ferguson was most well known for her involvement in the Red Cross movement in Scotland, Australia, and internationally with the League of Red Cross Societies. 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 ...
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The badge for RRC is in the shape of a golden cross, 1.375 inches (3.49 cm) wide, the obverse enamelled red, with a circular medallion, bearing an effigy of the reigning monarch at its centre. The words "Faith", "Hope" and "Charity" are inscribed on the upper limbs of the cross, with the year "1883" in the lower limb.
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