French Red Cross
From Linking experiences of World War One
| French Red Cross | |
|---|---|
| Years active: | May 1864 – |
| Country: | France |
| Service: | Red Cross |
| Branch: | |
| Type: | Medical |
| Specific type: | Red Cross society |
| Full size: | None |
| Sources for overview: | |
| Created: | May 1864. |
| Sources for created: | [1] |
| Name1: | Société française de secours aux blessés militaires |
| Name1 Start: | May 1864 |
| Name1 End: | 1940 |
| Reason for change: | |
| Sources for name1: | [2] |
| Name2: | Croix-Rouge française |
| Name2 Start: | 1940 |
| Name2 End: | |
| Reason for change: | |
| Sources for name2: | [3] |
| Alternate names: | SSBM, CRF |
| Sources for alternate names: | [4] |
| Disbanded: | |
| Sources for disbanded: | |
| For more information on what infobox fields mean, see documentation at military unit, command structure and theatre of war. | |
| Command structure | |
|---|---|
| Relationship type: | Affiliation |
| Parent unit: | International Committee of the Red Cross |
| Parent level: | |
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Contents
Personal narratives
Arthur Dease
Arthur Joseph Dease was born in Ireland and educated in England. He volunteered to serve as an ambulance driver in the French Red Cross, Section Sanitaire Anglais No.3. Arthur's Letters has transcripts of his letters home from 1915 to 1918.
Related media
Official Sources
Unit war diaries
No war diaries exist for this unit. This could be because:
- 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.
