Sedalia Auxiliary Red Cross

ID: 757 ~ Source: Imhauser, Becky Carr. All Around Downtown Sedalia, Missouri. Vol. 2, Inter-State Studio & Publishing Co.: 2023. 75. ~ Creator: The University of Central Missouri History Department, Glyne Gee

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Sedalia Auxiliary Red Cross — Imhauser, Becky Carr. All Around Downtown Sedalia, Missouri. Vol. 2, Inter-State Studio & Publishing Co.: 2023. 75.

Clemence J. Kahn organized the Sedalia Auxiliary of the Red Cross in 1914. In this picture, she and the Red Cross distribute ice cream cones to military personnel during the First World War.

This file appears in: Sedalia Missouri American Red Cross

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…