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*British Red Cross [http://www.redcross.org.uk/About-us/Who-we-are/History-and-origin/First-World-War First World War Volunteers]. Free online Search of British Red Cross record cards for their Volunteers during WW1, many of whom were women.
:[[Findmypast]], a pay website, contains a database "British Red Cross Register Of Overseas Volunteers 1914-1918" <ref>[https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/british-red-cross-register-of-overseas-volunteers-1914-1918 British Red Cross Register Of Overseas Volunteers 1914-1918] findmypast</ref> (located in Armed forces & conflict/Regimental & service records)which appears to be transcripts of data from the British Red Cross website. This database also contains records for members of other volunteer organisations: Friends Ambulance Unit (FAU), First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY), Order of St. John Ambulance, Scottish Women’s Hospital, Voluntary Aid Detachments (VAD) and Liverpool Merchants’ Hospital. There is also a findmypast database "British Army, British Red Cross Society Volunteers 1914-1918"<ref>[https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/british-army-british-red-cross-society-volunteers-1914-1918 British Army, British Red Cross Society Volunteers 1914-1918] findmypast</ref>, (located in Armed forces & conflict/First World War), also of transcripts from the British Red Cross website.
:Details of Red Cross work may be found in the 1921 HMSO publication of 823 pages: ''Reports by the Joint War Committee and the Joint War Finance Committee of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in England on voluntary aid rendered to the sick and wounded at home and abroad and to British prisoners of war 1914–1919, with appendices'', now available in a reprint<ref>[http://www.naval-military-press.com/voluntary-aid-rendered-to-the-sick-and-wounded-at-home-and-abroad-and-to-british_prisoners-of-war-1914-1919.html ''Reports by the Joint War Committee and the Joint War Finance Committee of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in England on voluntary aid rendered to the sick and wounded at home and abroad and to British prisoners of war 1914–1919, with appendices''] Naval & Military Press.</ref> edition.
*[http://fau.quaker.org.uk The Friends Ambulance Unit] was set up by Quakers in the UK during World War I. The personnel records from this service are now available to search online. Library of the Religious Society of Friends, London, NW1.*[http://museumstjohn.org.uk Museum of the Order of St John], Clerkenwell, London, EC1. The Museum contains an Archive which includes First World War holdings. The website also includes online editions of [http://museumstjohn.org.uk/research/st-john-archive/ ''First Aid. The Independent Journal for the Ambulance and Nursing Services''] (scroll down). Journals from 1912 to 1920.
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