Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black, 1849–2024, Annual Volumes.
British Red Cross
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Employer | Carola Oman | CO
served the British Red Cross Society
for a second term, nursing through the Second World War and staying on afterwards. |
Employer | Carola Oman | CO
was president of the Hertford Branch of the British Red Cross Society
. Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black, 1849–2024, Annual Volumes. |
Employer | Ann Bridge | In Hungary Mary O'Malley (the writer AB
) not only carried out her diplomatic-wife tasks of entertaining and visiting, but also worked as a British Red Cross
representative for the country. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. Reilly, John M., editor. Twentieth Century Crime and Mystery Writers. Macmillan, 1980. |
Employer | Jane Gardam | In 1951 she took a job with the Red Cross
, working as a travelling librarian visiting and servicing hospital libraries. She then moved into journalism, becoming a sub-editor on Weldon Ladies Journal in 1952... |
Employer | Ngaio Marsh | |
Employer | Carola Oman | As a VAD—that is, a volunteer nurse with the Voluntary Aid Detachment
—CO
was stationed close to the lines in France. Here she worked for the British Red Cross
until after the war ended. “Obituary: Miss Carola Oman”. Times, 12 June 1978, p. 16. 16 |
politics | Ann Bridge | During the second world, while in charge of getting care packages to British prisoners of war in Germany, she was outraged by what she felt to be the shocking inefficiencies, delays, and penny-pinching of... |
Residence | Willa Muir | Nearing the end of her life, WM
tried living in a British Red Cross
home called Meadowcroft, in Cambridge. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Production | Ann Bridge | One of her over-riding aims here was, through relating her own efforts to get food parcels to British prisoners of war, to expose the failures of the British Red Cross
, so that nothing of... |
Textual Production | Ngaio Marsh |
Timeline
April 1916: The British Red Cross Society organized the...
Building item
April 1916
The British Red Cross Society
organized the Women's Motor Ambulance Unit
in northern France under the command of Mrs Graham Jones
.
McLaren, Barbara. Women of the War. Hodder and Stoughton, 1917.
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