Summary of work / Red Cross and St. John War Organisation.
Joint War Organisation of the British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John of Jerusalem
Category
Books
Date
Oct 1939 - Dec 1940
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3252797.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
Nos. 1-32 (Oct. 1939-Dec. 1940) ; 20 cm. Supplement to no. 16 (18 May 1940) bound in after the relevant number. Ephemera: two appeal flyers (both 1940) and an order of service for "A service of prayer and music" at Westminster Abbey (3 June 1940) bound in. Provenance: Gilt stamped Fairhaven crest at head of spine [i.e. Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century half white morocco, red cloth over boards; sewn onto five raised bands; red morocco spine labels, gilt lettered: 'Red Cross and St. John War Organisation' and 'Summary of work / Vol. I 1939-1940'; gilt stamped Fairhaven crest at head of spine [i.e. Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]; gilt top edge. Binder's ink-stamp on front pastedown: 'Birdsall Northampton.'.
Makers and roles
Joint War Organisation of the British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John of Jerusalem, author