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Technical note: The Red Cross and its role as an auxiliary to military medical services

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

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The very first National Red Cross Societies were formed, on the initiative of Henry Dunant and his colleagues in that private Genevese association that was later to take the name of the “International Committee of the Red Cross”, precisely to come to the aid of wounded soldiers.

Type
Research Article
Information
International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 23 , Issue 234 , June 1983 , pp. 139 - 141
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1983

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