“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
British Red Cross
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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. Reilly, John M., editor. Twentieth Century Crime and Mystery Writers. Macmillan. |
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... |
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... |
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 | |
Textual Production | Ngaio Marsh | |
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/. |
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, p. 16. 16 |
Employer | Carola Oman | CO
served the British Red Cross Society
for a second term, nursing through the Second World War and staying on afterwards. Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black. |
Employer | Carola Oman | CO
was president of the Hertford Branch of the British Red Cross Society
. Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black. |
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
.
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