International Committee of the Red Cross

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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. She records...

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...

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

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