Minutes of meetings from 15 October 1920 until 12 May 1939. The volume contains the minutes of Council and reports of the Executive Committee.





Matters discussed included:


mission of the Council of the Scottish Branch and formation and constitution of the Scottish Central Council Branch;


assistance regarding the 'Save The Children' Fund;


British Red Cross war medals; emergency help scheme;


lectures on child welfare and tuberculosis;


extension of the training scheme;


agreement with St Andrew's Ambulance Association;


news offices for Scottish Branch headquarters;


grant for Christmas fare for ex-servicemen;


Russian famine relief;


treatment for tuberculosis in ex-servicemen;


lectures to Women's Rural Institutes;


cancer appeal campaign;


scheme for reorganising Voluntary Aid Detachments;


proposals for Red Cross Detachments;


British Red Crescent Society;


Scottish Pilgrimage visits of relatives to war graves in France and Belgium;


VAD first aid and nursing duties at the British Empire Exhibition;


recommended amendments to Council Standing Orders; figures of VADs registered under the New Scheme;


relationships with the Girl Guides and Girls Guildry; treatment institutions for ex-servicemen, including Lewis Sanatorium, Stornoway; death of Queen Alexandra; appointment of the Queen as President and Princess Mary as Commander-in-Chief of the Society; inspection of VADs by the Queen; opening of the Scottish National War Memorial; opening of Red Cross Hospital Units in Territorial Camps; provision of first aid and transport at the Braemar Gatherings; death of Mr Walter G Montgomery, OBE; competitions for the Caledonian Shield; VAD Training Camp; deaths of Miss Muriel Graham, Sir Hector C Cameron, Mr J H Hair and Lord Blythsford; classes of instruction and subsequent awards; Camps of Instruction; Women's First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (Ambulance Car Corps); International Conference for the International Committee of Geneva and the League of Red Cross Societies, 1930; closure of the Lewis Sanatorium; subscriptions of County Branches; Personal Service Scheme; work of Commandants of VADs and the extremely high standards demanded in VADs; alterations to the Rules of the Scottish Branch; possibility of moving patients at Ralston Hospital to Erskine Hospital; Air Raid Precautions; appeal on behalf of the Abyssinian wounded; Blood Transfusion Badges; Junior Links; inspection by the Princess Royal; relief of distress in China; deaths of Lord Mackenzie and Mr William Lang; International Red Cross Conference 1938; death of Major General Hunter Blair; War Office grants in aid of VADs; local ARP schemes; release of Immobile Women Nursing Members; scheme for Nursing Auxiliaries.