International Committee of the Red Cross

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Employer Enid Bagnold
EB joined the Red Cross after the First World War began, and became a VAD .
Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
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Employer Gertrude Bell
GB worked for the Red Cross , first at Boulogne in France, then in London, tracing those missing or wounded in action.
Goodman, Susan. Gertrude Bell. Berg.
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Textual Production Mary Frances Billington
MFB published The Red Cross in War: Woman's Part in the Relief of Suffering, a collection of articles written for the Daily Telegraph on the contributions of women as wartime nurses and medical professionals.
Billington, Mary Frances. The Red Cross in War: Woman’s Part in the Relief of Suffering. Hodder and Stoughton.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Frances Billington
MFB credits Queen Mary and her attempts to mobilize women in the workforce for the passing of that sense of utter impotence which possessed [women] in the first days of the war.
Billington, Mary Frances. The Roll-Call of Serving Women: A Record of Woman’s Work for Combatants and Sufferers in the Great War. The Religious Tract Society.
24
She records...
Textual Features Mary Frances Billington
Much of this work covers the contributions of women in the fields of nursing and commodity production, although Billington also includes accounts and photographs of women police volunteers. She provides elaborate first-hand accounts of work...
politics Ann Bridge
AB also wanted to help after witnessing the appalling conditions in which 90,000 refugee ex-soldiers of the Spanish Republican Army were corralled behind barbed wire on an unsheltered beach in southern France, succumbing to pneumonia...
Occupation May Cannan
Before the war MC qualified herself as a VAD ; she took a number of exams under the auspices of the Red Cross and other organisations, and worked as a hospital volunteer. Before she was...
Occupation Agatha Christie
During her husband's wartime absence, AC at first worked for the VAD as a nurse. She also dispensed medicine for the Red Cross . According to Red Cross records, she worked 3,400 hours between October...
Textual Production Elizabeth De la Pasture
Though EDP appears to have stopped writing at or shortly after her second marriage, she did while living in the Gold Coast (now Ghana) edit a collection of brief memoirs. Our Days on the Gold...
Occupation Monica Dickens
Quite early in 1940 (after a spell as a writer and another collecting scrap iron for armaments) MD joined the Red Cross as a VAD (that is, a Voluntary Aid Detachment volunteer nurse), then became...
Material Conditions of Writing E. M. Forster
EMF published Alexandria: A History and A Guide, which drew on his work in that city with the Wounded and Missing Bureau of the Red Cross during the First World War.
Drabble, Margaret, and Jenny Stringer, editors. The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.
216
Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press.
247
Kirkpatrick, Brownlee Jean. A Bibliography of E. M. Forster. Clarendon.
27
Residence Karen Gershon
Four weeks after Kristallnacht, Kaethe Loewenthal (later KG ) and her sister Lise put their names down to travel the following Wednesday to England on their tightly limited visas arranged by the Red Cross .
Gershon, Karen. A Lesser Child. P. Owen.
194
Forbes, Peter, editor. Scanning the Century. Viking.
99
politics Storm Jameson
In Prague, Jameson spent time with her longtime friend Jiřina Tůmová and various politicians and bureaucrats, including Edvard Benes or Beněs . Beněs was the former president of Czechoslovakia, whom Jameson came to know at...
Textual Production Storm Jameson
Jameson had been approached by the Ministry of Information once the USA had entered World War II, for suggestions on how to cement Anglo-American relations.
Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row.
524
The resulting volume includes work by Phyllis Bentley ,...
Textual Features Vernon Lee
The ballet is an allegorical attack on the Vices of Civilization and the Insanities ofWar.
Smedley, Constance, and Maxwell Armfield. Crusaders. Chatto & Windus.
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Its abstract characters in The Ballet of the Nations include the eternal, universal figures of Heroism, Love, Fear, Death...

Timeline

24 June 1859: The battle of Solferino was fought: journalist...

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24 June 1859

The battle of Solferino was fought: journalist Jean Henri Dunant documented the agonies of wounded soldiers left to die on the battlefield, and set out to prevent such suffering for the future.

1862: Jean Henri Dunant published and distributed...

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1862

Jean Henri Dunant published and distributed A Memory of Solferino, which led to the birth of the Red Cross .

22 August 1864: The Geneva Convention adopted the charter...

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22 August 1864

The Geneva Convention adopted the charter of the International Red Cross .

22 August 1864: The Geneva Convention adopted the charter...

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22 August 1864

The Geneva Convention adopted the charter of the International Red Cross .

1870-1871: With the aid of Clara Barton, the International...

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1870-1871

With the aid of Clara Barton , the International Committee of the Red Cross set up hospitals during the Franco-Prussian War.

By January 1872: Gustave Moynier, an instigator of the Red...

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By January 1872

Gustave Moynier , an instigator of the Red Cross and the Geneva Convention, decided (reversing his earlier opinion) that an International Criminal Court to try war crimes was desirable.

12 October 1915: Edith Cavell, the now famous English Red...

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12 October 1915

Edith Cavell , the now famous English Red Cross nurse, was executed by firing squad.

10 December 1917: The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the...

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10 December 1917

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the International Red Cross ; they won this prize again in 1944 and 1963.

April 1936: The League of Nations mounted an investigation...

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April 1936

The League of Nations mounted an investigation into Italy's alleged use of poison gas in its invasion of Ethiopia (violating the 1925Geneva Protocol).

1938: An International Red Cross report on Dachau,...

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1938

An International Red Cross report on Dachau , extraordinarily, praised the camp as well regulated, the regime as severe but not inhumane, and the treatment of the sick as positively kind.

14 October 1942: The International Red Cross decided against...

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14 October 1942

The International Red Cross decided against publicly announcing its evidence about Nazi death camps.

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