The ambulances carried 1,013,076 casualties and patients and covered 9,142,621 miles. Patients were examined before being transferred to waiting ambulance trains or direct to special hospitals. When planes carrying the casualties landed, ambulances drew up next to them ready to be loaded. Notably, Red Cross ambulances helped transport the wounded in the days following the Normandy landings. Red Cross ambulance crews provided assistance to the sick and wounded, both at home and abroad. Throughout the war the department sourced and supplied hundreds of ambulances to the Army. In October 1939, the Joint War Organisation created a new department responsible for transporting the wounded. We ran ambulances for the sick and wounded The Red Cross gave out essential items such as food, medical supplies, blankets and clothing to people in town halls, emergency rest centres and hospitals. They ran first aid posts in the London Underground stations used as air raid shelters. Volunteers drove ambulances, carried stretchers and rescued people from buildings that had been demolished by bombs. The British Red Cross supported people who were affected by the Blitz, a nine-month period of exceptionally heavy bombing in London.
It was also the largest and most sustained aerial bombing of towns and cities the UK had ever seen.
The Battle of Britain from September 1940 to May 1941 was the first major military campaign to be fought entirely by air forces. The British Red Cross carried out extensive services at home and abroad for the sick and wounded, prisoners of war and civilians needing relief. This helped to coordinate wartime activities more efficiently, and under the protection of the Red Cross emblem. War was declared in September 1939 and the British Red Cross joined forces with the Order of St John to help the sick and wounded.Īs they’d done in the First World War, they formed the Joint War Organisation.
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