Preparation of comfort parcels for troops

During the Second World War, the Joint War Organisation of the Order of St John and the British Red Cross pooled their fundraising activities and resources and worked together. Here, nurses from the two organisations work together to create comfort parcels to send to the wartime prison camps.

Object type

Film and Photographic Material

Date

Production: 1939 - 1945

Subject(s)

War
Nursing
Joint War Organisation

Associated organisation

British Red Cross (1870 - present)
Priory of England and the Islands of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem (1999 - present)
Joint War Organisation

Associated activity

War

Associated event

War: Second World War (1 September 1939 - 2 September 1945)

Materials and technique

Photograph on paper

Catalogue number

PHA1110