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Battle of Solferino, June 1859, by Carlo Bossoli
Battle of Solferino, 24 June 1859
Henry Dunant, founder of
the Red Cross Movement
Colonel Robert LoydLindsay, one of the
founders of the British Red
Cross, on foot during the
Franco-Prussian war
German military
doctors,
World War I
A “hospital” ward with volunteer nurses and patients at a
country house in Lyme Regis, Dorset, 20 March 1915
Church collection appeal
poster, designed by Tom
Purvis.
Red Cross personnel work in the enquiry rooms for the
missing and wounded in Geneva.
A group of mainly women volunteer ambulance drivers in
Etaples, France, in 1917.
Lebanese Red Cross first aid volunteers evacuate an elderly
woman from the southern town of Tyre to a hospital in Beirut.
ICRC food distribution Kunduz Province North Afghansitan
Families looking at photos of missing relatives at Monrovia
redemption hospital, Liberia.
Tracing family members in Gashora, Rwanda
Writing up a Red Cross message with a detainee in Djibouti
town, Gabode central prison.
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Battle of Solferino, June 1859. Painting by Carlo Bossoli, Museo Nazionale del Risorgimento, Turin ©
Photothèque ICRC (DR)
Battle of Solferino, 24 June 1859 © Photothèque CICR (DR)/
Henry Dunant, founder of the Red Cross Movement © British Red Cross Museums and Archives
The Franco-Prussian war (1870-71) was the first major conflict the British Red Cross responded to.
This watercolour painting by Robert Thomas Landells shows one of its founders, Colonel Robert LoydLindsay, on foot at Versailles. Image reference 0037A/2 © British Red Cross Museums and Archives
German military doctors, World War I © British Red Cross
A “hospital” ward with volunteer nurses and patients at a country house in Lyme Regis, Dorset, 20
March 1915. On the outbreak of war, both the Joint War Committee and the War Office were
inundated with offers of buildings for use as a temporary hospitals. The Red Cross administered 3,000
of them. Image reference 1619/13/IN1801 © British Red Cross Museums and Archives
Church collection appeal poster, designed by Tom Purvis. In 1914, the Red Cross decided to ask
churches of all denominations to donate one day's collection money to the Red Cross. In 1915, church
members donated £85,000. Image reference 1545/1 © British Red Cross Museums and Archives
Red Cross personnel work in the enquiry rooms for the missing and wounded in Geneva. The Red
Cross set up centres for recording wounded and missing soldiers and sailors during the First World
War. Volunteers, including the writer E.M. Forster, searched in villages and hospitals after battles to
find out what happened to the missing. In this way, families could finally discover the fate of their loved
ones. This was the start of the international tracing and message services. © British Red Cross
Museums and Archives
A group of mainly women volunteer ambulance drivers in Etaples, France, in 1917. Image reference
634/IN0484 © British Red Cross Museums and Archives
Lebanese Red Cross first aid volunteers evacuate an elderly woman from the southern town of Tyre to
a hospital in Beirut. The woman was trapped under rubble following bombing. © Marko Kokic/ICRC
ICRC food distribution Kunduz Province North Afghansitan © Ash Sweeting/British Red Cross
Families looking at photos of missing relatives at Monrovia redemption hospital, Liberia. © Boris
Heger/ICRC
Working with lists of people looking for a family member in Gashora, Rwanda on market day as part of
the international message and tracing service. © Paul Grabhorn/ICRC
Writing up a Red Cross message with a detainee in Djibouti town, Gabode central prison. © Boris
Heger/ICRC
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