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...

EB joined the Red Cross after the First World War began, and became a VAD .

GB worked for the Red Cross , first at Boulogne in France, then in London, tracing those missing or wounded in action.

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...