International Committee of the Red Cross

Throughout the First World War, both before and after her marriage in 1915, Amabel Strachey (later AWE ) was a Red Cross VAD, first at her family home in Surrey (now converted into a military...

DW signed up during World War One as a nurse with the Red Cross . She proved, however, too emotional to be a success at nursing. Years later she confessed that she had fainted at...

However, her renunciation of war did not prevent her from undertaking any humanitarian effort related to war. Biographer Christopher Armstrong notes that in the years leading up to the war, both EU and her husband...

From Western Ireland KT wrote letters to London newspapers, entreating readers to donate money for beds at the Red Cross hospital being run at Dublin Castle. She successfully raised enough money for new beds...

Flower of Youth was so popular that KT 's publishers, Sidgwick and Jackson , printed and sold it as a leaflet, donating the profits to the Red Cross .

VT associated herself with women deeply involved in wartime activities, and specifically (despite her pre-war visit to Mussolini ) with anti-Nazi events. For instance, her former house-guest Hélène Terré worked for the Red Cross in...

Here, as in Edinburgh, she entered energetically into local literary life. She was the first president (for two terms) of the North Gloucestershire (Cheltenham) Centre of Poetry , and during the second world war...

With the onset of World War One, EN engaged in philanthropic work such as sewing pyjamas for the Red Cross and knitting socks and making flannel shirts for the Comforts Fund . In 1915 she...

She had written it from a sickbed and it had appeared in New York daily papers immediately after the fall of Paris to the Nazis . It now carried her statement, at her publisher's suggestion...

During her travels, although she was not a trained nurse, she tended victims of atrocities in the Balkans and volunteered for the Red Cross during the Boer War. She sailed for Antwerp early in the...

In May 1940 Paris began to fill up with Belgian refugees (who at the end of the month, when Belgium capitulated, became suddenly official enemies of Britain). CM began working (I don't quite remember...

The ballet is an allegorical attack on the Vices of Civilization and the Insanities ofWar. Its abstract characters in The Ballet of the Nations include the eternal, universal figures of Heroism, Love, Fear, Death...

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...

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. The resulting volume includes work by Phyllis Bentley ,...

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 .