Minutes of meetings from 13 October 1939 until 26 September 1945. The volume contains the minutes of Council.





Matters discussed included: accounts of the Scottish Branch; income of the War Fund; ambulance convoys; Officers' Convalescent Hospitals; mobilisation of Voluntary Aid Detachments; materials for Work Parties; appointment of the Duchess of Kent as Patroness of Red Cross Work Parties; resignations and appointments to the Council and its committees/sub-committees; prisoners of war; penny-a-week fund; Blood Transfusion Scheme; Red Cross members in civil hospitals; registration of new VADs; formulation of the Transport Committee; hospital supplies and comforts; restrictions to use of the Red Cross emblem; junior classes; distribution and control of funds raised for Red Cross purposes; Transport of Wounded Reports; Prisoners of War Parcels Packing Depots; Red Cross Week; supply of books and games to prisoners of war; relief of distress due to air raids; rehabilitation scheme; sphagnum moss depots; adoption of prisoners of war; transport of the wounded; numbers of VAD personnel; convalescent and military epidemic hospitals; register of Scottish homeless; Dumbartonshire Branch work during air raids, March 1941; County Branch organisation and effort; use of mobile canteens by the Transport of Wounded Department; equipping and upkeep of Kildonan Hospital; introduction of a Junior course of ARP training; increase in the numbers of the Executive Committee; food parcels being sent to prisoners of war; aid to Russia; uniform for VAD members; CNR training; issue fo cigarettes in hospitals; economy in the use of paper; requisition, production and supply of garments, bandages, dressings and other items by Work Parties; Christmas parcels packed and sent to prisoners of war; next-of-kin parcels; post-war reconstruction policy; publicity work; work of the Junior Branch; Emergency Help Scheme; Hospital Library Scheme; VAD reorganisation; searchers for the missing; assistance of the Scottish Women's Rural Institute; Flag Day; support of the American Red Cross; possible fusion of the Scottish Branch and St Andrew's Ambulance Association; creation and content of a Red Cross elementary Course of Study in Social Welfare; aid to mothers and children in France, Belgium and Greece; Red Cross and St John Sunday; names of representatives on various bodies; Christmas Grants to service patients; organisation of orthopaedic work in Scotland; new VAD Scheme, 1943; co-operation with other youth organisations; work of the Foreign Relations Department; Red Cross Postal Message Scheme; Allied Prisoners of War Packing Centre; civilian relief overseas; tour of a Film Unit Van in Scottish counties, April 1944; appeal by Queen Marie of Yugoslavia for help; opening of a fund for the Yugoslav Red Cross; VAD service in India; blood transfusion; work of the Red Cross Guides in Scotland; post-war policy for disabled ex-servicemen; lowering of age for Mobile VAD members; admission to the Roll of Assistant Nurses; VAD recruitment drives; recruitment in the Civil Nursing Reserve; demobilisation of VAD members.





There is an alphabetical index at the front of the volume.