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Whether you are raising awareness or raising funds, the items listed in
this catalogue will help to generate interest and discussion about the
work of the British Red Cross and its humanitarian values. All the items
have been specially chosen and are available for loan with supporting
information.
The catalogue has been divided into a number of themes to help you
find things more easily. Please let us know if you cannot find what you
need or if there are any topics that you would like to see covered in the
future.
Related information sheets are available on request
Conditions:
You may borrow as many or as few items as you like. Our only
stipulations are:
> you pay for return postage
> return all the loan items on time
> take good care of your loan
> follow the laundry instructions supplied when you borrow uniforms
Many items are replicas of original items, and some are original items
please treat them all with care and follow any instructions provided. This
will ensure that items are available when you require them in the future.
Booking:
Please fill out a copy of a Loan Form at the end of this catalogue and
email to enquiry@redcross.org.uk
Or send it to the British Red Cross Museum and Archives, 44 Moorfields,
London EC2Y 9AL
Or contact Jane High, Collections Assistant, Museum and Archives
Tel: 020 7877 7058
enquiry@redcross.org.uk
Contents:
First World War display
First World War
wheelchair
Uniforms
Medals and badges
(1914 to 1980s)
Relief parcels
Replica posters (First
and Second World War)
Books
Certificates
Training manuals (19121960s)
Junior Red Cross
training manuals (19481973)
Message and tracing
Medical Equipment
(1900-1960s)
Images
Loan request form
Page 4
Page 5
Pages 6 - 19
Pages 20 - 26
Pages 27 - 32
Pages 33 - 38
Pages 39 - 40
Page 41
Pages 41 - 50
Pages 50 - 53
Pages 53 - 54
Pages 54 - 61
Pages 62 74
Page 75
The wheelchair can be borrowed for display at events, but must not be sat on or used
to transport people.
It can be borrowed as part of the First World War display (above) or separately.
The wheelchair is known as a Carstairs type and was designed to be lightweight to allow for
manoeuvrability in confined spaces, including up and down stairs, and was used in hospitals
and other institutions. It would have had a detachable wooden bar to stop the patient from
falling out when negotiating stairs. We do not have the wooden bar, but you can see the
holes in the armrests where it would have gone.
Dress size 10
Ref: H/UNI/2002/36
1 available
Dress size 12
Ref: H/UNI/2002/15, H/UNI/2002/16
& H/UNI/2002/24, H/UNI/2002/23
4 available
Dress size 14
Ref: H/UNI/2002/9 & H/UNI/2002/25
2 available
Dress size 16
Ref: H/UNI/2002/11, H/UNI/2002/10
& H/UNI/2002/12
3 available
Dress size 18
Ref: H/UNI/2002/13, H/UNI/2002/21,
H/UNI/2002/22 & H/UNI/2002/35
4 available
Dress size 20
Ref: H/UNI/2002/29
1 available
Dress size 24
Ref: H/UNI/2002/14, H/UNI/2002/27 &
H/UNI/2002/28
3 available
A members dress of a blue lustre fabric and named Orphan Annie because of the loose cut
and rounded collar.
Worn with a belt, apron and head veil as below
Member's indoor uniform petersham belt
H/UNI/2015/3-6
1939-1945
10
This style of uniform was designed by Norman Hartnell the Royal dressmaker. It was part of
the New Scheme to widen British Red Cross membership and attract a million new
members.
Worn with a belt, apron and head veil, as below
11
12
13
14
Ref: H/EQP/2002/7
Ref: H/EQP/2002/8
1970s
16
Haversack
Ref: H/EQP/2013/43
c.1950s
Hard hats
N.H.S.R (National Hospital Service Reserve) hard hats
Ref: H/EQP/2002/3; Ref: H/EQP/2002/5
Ref: H/EQP/2002/4; Ref: H/EQP/2002/6
c.1949
17
Oval cream coloured hard hat featuring the letters N.H.S.R. to front and back. The interior is
of soft leather and has a strap to tighten under chin. Used for rescue work by members in
the National Hospital Service Reserve which began in 1949.
These members were trained in nursing and first aid and would have attended accidents and
rescued casualties.
Uniform ephemera
Dress pattern
Ref: H/UNI/2002/4
1960s
Dress pattern
Ref: H/UNI/2002/1
1960s
18
Uniform advertisement
Ref: H/INFO/2002/UNI/3
1942
19
Membership badge
Ref: H/M&B/2006/6-10
c.1939-1945
20
VAD badges
Ref: H/M&B/2006/11-13
c.1940s-1950s
21
22
Service badges
Merit badge
Ref: H/M&B/2006/20
1930s
23
A badge worn by a collector for the Penny-aweek fund. This was set up during the
Second World War, and only one penny was
asked for each week. It involved workers in
factories, house to house collections and
donations from agricultural workers.
Proficiency badges
Pendant in the shape of the Geneva cross with a red cross in a white shield at the centre
surrounded by the words, 'The British Red Cross Society'. The brooch contains the words,
'Proficiency in' with 'Red Cross and the subject on a scroll beneath
First aid
Ref: H/M&B/2002/1,6, 8,11,14,15
1955-1960
24
skills
Nursing
Ref: H/M&B/2002/2,5,7,10,13,18
1930-1960
25
1924-1970s
26
Relief parcels
Second World War Prisoner of War food parcel
Food parcel boxes
Ref: H/PAR/2002/6-14
1939-1945
9 available (boxes only)
27
tin of cocoa
Ref: H/PAR/2002/1
tin of cheese
Ref: H/PAR/2002/4
bar of chocolate
Ref: H/PAR/2002/5
packet of tea
Ref: H/PAR/2002/23
tinned herrings
Ref: H/PAR/2002/22
28
Colour reproduction of a Christmas menu at Oflag IX/A2. The menu was provided for by the
food parcels and is illustrated with animated food tins, fruit and vegetables.
Oflag was a German prisoner of war camp for officers only.
29
Book parcel
Reproduction of book parcel packaging
Ref: H/PAR/2002/18 20
1939-1945
30
In contrast to the Second World War parcel, food parcel packaging from 2000. White
cardboard box with the words 'Comite International Geneve' around a red cross, on the front
and back and a list of contents on the sides.
Parcel contents
Litre of cooking oil from Italy
Ref: H/PAR/2009/1
31
32
Replica colour recruitment poster produced by the Joint War Committee of the British Red
Cross and Order of St John by artist and VAD Joyce Dennys, featuring members of the
British Red Cross, St John Ambulance and Territorial Force.
33
Ref: H/POST/2002/10
1939-1945
34
Ref: H/POST/2002/1
1940-1945
Ref: H/POST/2002/6
1939-1945
Ref: H/POST/2002/11
1939-1945
Ref: H/POST/2002/14
1939-1945
Ref: H/POST/2002/16
1939-1945
37
Generating awareness of the work carried out by the organisation both in times of war and
peace.
38
Books
Joint War Organisation book the British
Red Cross and the Order of St John
Second World War History. Compiled by
Cambray & Briggs, 1949
Ref: H/BOO/2003/1
39
40
Certificates
First World War certificate
Ref: H/CER/2006/1
1916
First Aid
Ref: H/BOO/2006/5-8
1914 edition, 1939 and 1945 editions
41
42
43
44
Tropical Hygiene
Ref: H/BOO/2006/21-22
1932 and 1946 editions
Nursing
Ref: H/BOO/2006/29-31
1939 and 1951 editions
45
Mental Health
Ref: H/BOO/2006/35-36
1958 editions
46
Infant Welfare
H/BOO/2015/5
1944
47
Tropical Hygiene
H/BOO/2015/9
1932
Tuberculosis
H/BOO/2015/10
1954
48
Uniform Handbook
H/BOO/2015/11
1964
Uniform Handbook
H/BOO/2015/12
1970
Uniform Regulations
H/BOO/2015/13
1982
49
50
Nursing
Ref: H/BOO/2006/41-42
1964 and 1971 editions
Mothercraft
Ref: H/BOO/2006/43
1963 edition
51
Training Handbook
H/BOO/2015/7
1957
52
53
1940
Ref: H/FOR/2002/1
1941-1942
Pair of forceps
Ref: H/EQP/2013/28
c.1939-1945
Clinical thermometer
H/EQP/2013/23
Thermometer case
H/EQP/2013/22
54
c.1950s
c.1939-1945
Bath thermometer
Ref: H/EQP/2013/26
c.1900s-1950s
Medicine dropper
Ref: H/EQP/2013/8
c.1960s
Medicine dropper
Ref: H/EQP/2013/9
c.1960s
Bandage rollers
Ref: H/EQP/2002/11&13
1939-1945
55
Wound dressing
Ref: H/EQP/2013/31
c.1950s
Wound dressing
Ref: H/EQP/2013/32
c.1950s
56
Enamel mug
Ref: H/EQP/2013/14
c.1900s-1950s
Enamel tray
Ref: H/EQP/2013/5
c.1900s-1950s
Bedpan
Ref: H/EQP/2015/1
c.1900s-1950s
58
59
Glass funnel
Ref: H/EQP/2013/2
c.1930s-1940s
Wooden splint
Ref: H/EQP/2013/41
c.1939-1945
Set of pneumasplints
Ref: H/EQP/2013/39
c.1968
60
Ref: H/EQP/2015/5
Resuscitation training model
c.1960s
Siebe-Gorman wooden model used for teaching mouth to mouth, and mouth to nose,
resuscitation. Comes with a carrying case.
61
Images
Replica and copy photographs to borrow on the following topics:
First and Second World War transport and ambulances
IN0077
Fleet of ambulances in France
1914-1918
IN0005
Red Cross drivers run to their ambulances in
Etaples, France
1914-1918
62
IN0018
Female Red Cross ambulance driver in
Etaples, France
1914-1918
IN4378
Nurses from Hospital Barge off-duty fishing
1914-1918
IN4476
VAD Nurses, Southmead, Bristol
1914-1918
IN1721
IN4396
Burton-on-Trent Town Hall Auxiliary Hospital,
Staffordshire
1914-1918
IN1301
63
IN2032
Mobile first aid post
1939
IN0234
VADs tend to air raid victims in shelter in City
of London
1939-1945
IN0328
VAD walking in the grounds of a hospital with
four convalescing servicemen
1939-1945
64
IN0121
The prisoner of war records room at the
International Committee of the Red Cross
headquarters in Geneva
1914-1918
IN0274
British section of the office in Geneva
1914-1918
Uniforms
IN0008
IN0007
65
IN4421
VAD nurses uniform
1914-1918
IN0025
Air Raid Precautions (ARP) training exercise
1939-1945
IN0190
Personnel taking air raid precautions (ARP)
training
1939-1945
66
Food parcels
IN0097
Red Cross food parcels in the process of
being packed
1939-1945
IN0569
Food parcel box with typical contents
1939-1945
IN0259
Prisoner of war parcels in a Geneva store
1939-1945
67
IN0235
ARP unit carrying casualty on a stretcher
from bomb scene
1939-1945
IN0119
British Red Cross air raid precautions
personnel in action
1939-1945
IN0292
Second World War distribution of food
parcels in Jersey
1939-1945
IN0202
International Red Cross ship the 'Vega' in
dock with food parcels for relief to civilians in
Guernsey
1944
Prisoners of war
IN0441
The arrival of food parcels in a prisoner of
war camp
1939-1945
IN0091
Prisoner of war camp library
1939-1945
68
IN0032
Inspection of Junior Red Cross members
1920-1929
IN0283
Aberdeen group of the Junior Red Cross
1945-1955
IN2643
Training of Junior Red Cross members from
London Branch
1950-1959
69
IN3227
Two British Red Cross members, organising
empty glass blood bottles
1939-1945
IN3224
Blood donors resting outside after having
given blood. Two female British Red Cross
members bring them cups of team
1939-1945
IN0080
Horse drawn ambulance of the Woolwich ambulance unit
1870-1871
70
IN0086
The Princess Christian hospital train
1899-1902
Historic figures
IN2510
Henry Dunant - Founder of the Red Cross
movement
c.1863
IN0277
Colonel Loyd-Lindsay - founder and first
Chairman of the British Red Cross
c.1855
71
IN0809
Sir James and Lady Cantlie
1911
IN0806
John McIntosh
Sir James Cantlie wrote the first Red Cross 1870
first aid, nursing and training manuals in
The first volunteer to die whilst on active
1911
service
IN0545
Sir Arthur Stanley
Chairman of the British Red Cross 19141943
Key events
72
IN0081
Signing of the First Geneva Convention
IN0256
Committee of Five
IN0663
Colonel Loyd-Lindsay with flag
1871
Photograph of a watercolour painting by
Robert Thomas Landells showing Colonel
Robert Loyd-Lindsay and Mr Whittle, both on
foot, at Versailles during the Franco-Prussian
War
73
74
75
Indemnity or insurance
provisions
Environmental provisions
Security provisions
76