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Probably the first British Red Cross flag. This flag was carried when financial aid was delivered during the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 – the first conflict in which the British Red Cross provided medical support. The British National Society for Aid to the Sick and Wounded in War was formed on 4 August at a public meeting chaired by Robert Loyd-Lindsay and became the British Red Cross in 1905.
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A letter by Florence Nightingale dated 5 March 1861. A central figurehead within Victorian medical society, the letter discusses medical reforms that Nightingale helped to spearhead.
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A pocket-sized first aid manual, printed by the British Red Cross in 1912 and written by the honorary surgeon-colonel James Cantlie.
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A first world war British Red Cross female ambulance driver’s uniform cap. Women played an important role in the British Red Cross during the first world war. Out of the 90,000 VADs, or voluntary aid detachments, 66,000 were women. They undertook a variety of work during the war as nurses, clerks, cooks and ambulance drivers.
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Queen Mary with her daughter Princess Mary during the first world war
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A cloth doll wearing a British Red Cross nurses uniform from the first world war.
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An apron made from a flour sack that was used during the Ethiopian famine, 1983-5.
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Queen Elizabeth II during a visit to the British Red Cross national headquarters in 1989.
Photograph: British Red Cross Museum & Archives/PA
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Princess Elizabeth visits a Red Cross hut for tuberculosis patients in 1951.
Photograph: British Red Cross Museum & Archives/PA
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The Prince of Wales, president of the British Red Cross, and Princess Alexandra, the deputy president, meet nurses dressed in first world war uniforms during a garden party in honour of the society at Buckingham Palace.
Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA
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A painting by a young refugee called Journey by Boat, showing refugees crossing the Mediterranean in 2016. The artist produced the work at a British Red Cross young refugee support centre in Gravesend, Kent.
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A commemorative GBP5 coin that was issued to 150 Red Cross staff and volunteers to celebrate the 150th anniversary
Photograph: Royal Mint/PA
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