Dame Anne Bryans
Production date
1976
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Photograph showing Dame Anne Bryans, Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee, on her retirement in 1976.
The text attached to the reverse of the photograph reads: 'Dame Anne to Retire. Dame Anne Bryans, the Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee of the British Red Cross Society to retire on Thursday 8th July, after 50 years of voluntary service. Dame Anne, the daughter of the late Col. Rt. Hon. Sir John Gilmour, MP, joined the Red Cross in 1927, working in a number of hospitals until the beginning of the war, when she became the head of the enquiry department of the Joint War Organisation of the Red Cross and Order of St John. In 1942 she pioneered a welfare service in service hospitals in the Middle East and later became commissioner responsible for relief work and other Red Cross activities throughout the command. In 1960 she became the Chairman of the Service Hospitals Welfare Department. She became deputy chairman of the Executive Committee in 1953 and Vice Chairman in 1964.'
The text attached to the reverse of the photograph reads: 'Dame Anne to Retire. Dame Anne Bryans, the Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee of the British Red Cross Society to retire on Thursday 8th July, after 50 years of voluntary service. Dame Anne, the daughter of the late Col. Rt. Hon. Sir John Gilmour, MP, joined the Red Cross in 1927, working in a number of hospitals until the beginning of the war, when she became the head of the enquiry department of the Joint War Organisation of the Red Cross and Order of St John. In 1942 she pioneered a welfare service in service hospitals in the Middle East and later became commissioner responsible for relief work and other Red Cross activities throughout the command. In 1960 she became the Chairman of the Service Hospitals Welfare Department. She became deputy chairman of the Executive Committee in 1953 and Vice Chairman in 1964.'
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Archives
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119(15)/176
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