British Red Cross
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British Red Cross | |
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Years active: | 4/8/1870 – |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Service: | Red Cross |
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Type: | Medical |
Specific type: | Red Cross society |
Full size: | None |
Sources for overview: | [1] |
Created: | 4/8/1870. |
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Name1: | British Red Cross Society |
Name1 Start: | 1905 |
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Relationship type: | Affiliation |
Parent unit: | International Committee of the Red Cross |
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Relationship type: | Affiliation |
Subordinate unit: | Australian Branch, British Red Cross |
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Relationship type: | Affiliation |
Subordinate unit: | New Zealand Branch, British Red Cross |
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Contents
Personal narratives
Margaret Gray
Margaret Gray trained as a nurse in Australia. She went to England in 1914 and became a Matron with the British Red Cross Hospital at Rouen. The Australian War Memorial has her autograph book and a brief narrative of her experiences.
Related media
Official Sources
Unit war diaries
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- units and formations were only required to keep official war diaries when operating in a theatre of war.
- war diaries were created but no longer survive.
- some unit pages on this site that represent groups of formation troops don't correspond to a unit or staff department that kept war diaries.