Sedalia Auxiliary Red Cross Parade, c. 1917

ID: 756 ~ Source: Imhauser, Becky Carr. All Around Downtown Sedalia, Missouri. Vol.1, Walsworth Publishing: 2011. 71. ~ Creator: The University of Central Missouri Department of History, Glyne Gee ~ Date: c. 1917

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Sedalia Auxiliary Red Cross Parade, c. 1917 — Imhauser, Becky Carr. All Around Downtown Sedalia, Missouri. Vol.1, Walsworth Publishing: 2011. 71.

Clemence Joseph Kahn formed the Sedalia Auxiliary of the Red Cross in 1914. Clemence standing on left with May Jaynes Wood, Mrs. Lawson, and Helen Gallie Steele of the organization, attended a Red Cross parade in 1917.

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Sedalia Missouri American Red Cross

By University of Central Missouri Department of History, Glyne Gee

After the Battle of Solferino in 1859, Henry Dunant from Switzerland organized the European Red Cross Movement to train national relief societies that could provide neutral care during war. In 1863, the International Committee of the Red Cross…