WW1 Red Cross Nursing Manual No 2

WW1 Red Cross Nursing Manual No 2, 1916

1916 updated version from the 1914 version,  worn spine and bumped edges, clean inside , obviously well used book.

The British Red Cross Society is the United Kingdom body of the worldwide neutral and impartial humanitarian network the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. The society was formed in 1870, and is a registered charity with more than 17,200 volunteers and 3,400 staff.^[1][2] At the heart of their work is providing help to people in crisis, both in the UK and overseas. The Red Cross is committed to helping people without discrimination, regardless of their ethnic origin, nationality, political beliefs or religion.^[3] Queen Elizabeth II is the patron of the society.

In the year ending December 2019, the charity’s income was £244.9 million, which included £68.7M from government contracts and grants. It spent £197.5M (80%) of its income delivering its charitable activities.^[1]

The British Red Cross was formed in 1870, just seven years after the formation of the international movement in Switzerland. This followed the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871), and a move across Europe to form similar societies. The society was founded as the British National Society for Aid to the Sick and Wounded in War at a public meeting chaired by Robert Loyd-Lindsay in London on 4 August 1870. It assisted in providing aid to both warring armies in the Franco-Prussian War and subsequent 19th-century conflicts, under the protection of the Red Cross Emblem. The society was one of several British volunteer medical organisations to serve in the war.

In 1905, 35 years after its formation, the society was reconstituted as the British Red Cross Society, and was granted its first Royal Charter in 1908 by King Edward VII. His consort, Queen Alexandra, became its president.

WW1 Red Cross Nursing Manual No 2, 1916