Medical organisation in case of invasion / British Red Cross Society.

Date:
[1910?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Medical organisation in case of invasion / British Red Cross Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FORM D. Patron. HIS MAJESTY KING EDWARD VII. Yresident. HER MAJESTY QUEEN ALEXANDRA, Chairman of the Council. THE RICHD HON, LORD ROTHSCHILD, Gi@gy Or Chairman of the Executive Committee. Sly ERE DERICK TRKEVES, BART, GiCrV.0., C.B. MEDICAL ORGANISATION IN CASE OF INVASION. THE Secretary of State for War issued on August 16th, 1909, to Secretaries of ‘Territorial County Associations in England and Wales a Scheme for the Organisation of Voluntary Aid for sick and wounded in the event of war in the home territory. _ The scheme proposes to make use of the existing organisation of the British Red Cross. Society and to develop it on a large scale, so that it shall comprehend every district in the country. The help of the St. John Ambulance Association has also been secured for the preliminary training of candidates wishing to take part in the work. A county system has been adopted because it is that upon which both the Territorial Force and the British Red Cross Society are organised. Each County Association is charged with the responsibility of organising voluntary aid in the county, and is required, through the local branches of the British Red Cross Society, to form VOLUNTARY AID DETACHMENTS. ‘There need be no limit to the number of such detachments. Those in each county will be under the command of a County Director. The County Director will be appointed by the local branch of the British Red Cross Society. He will be responsible for the efficiency of the Voluntary Aid Detachments, and be controlled only by the Committee of the Ked Cross Brancn for the county. The Com- mittee in turn is responsible to the County Association for the efficiency of the detachments. The whole organisation is intended to provide supplementary aid to the Territorial Medical Service to meet the needs of war at home.
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