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: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>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/voluntary-aid-rendered-to-the-sick-and-wounded-at-home-and-abroad-and-to-british-prisoners-of-war-1914-1919/ ''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 reprint edition.</ref> edition, which in turn is available to read online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, refer Historical books online below.
*[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 links to 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 , with additions from 1912 1896 to 19201957. The actual online journals are held on the website issuu.com, together with some other publications.
== Related articles ==
:In 1999 there was a 6 volume reprint by Trident Press International of the 13 Volume series under the original title, and also under the title ''The Great War -the Illustrated History of the First World War'' with Volume 1 also titled ''Opening Moves'' and Volume 4 ''Carnage''. [https://archive.org/details/greatwarstandard0003unse/page/n5/mode/2up 1999 reprint edition of original Volume 3 and Volume 4] Archive.org Books to Borrow.
*''A Popular History of the Great War'' edited by Sir J A Hammerton c 1933 Archive.org, most from the Public Library of India Collection. A series of six volumes which is an original narrative "embodying the gist of post-war revelations and official documents" (according to the Editors Introduction) but making use of material from the 13 volume series ''The Great War'', see previous entry. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.96728 Vol. 1 1914], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.96729 Vol. 2 1915], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.96730 Vol. 3 1916], [https://archive.org/details/popularhistoryof0004sirj/page/n5/mode/2up Vol. 4 1917], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.96731 Vol. 5 1918], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.96732 Vol. 6 Armistice and After]
*[https://archive.org/search?query=%22The+Children%27s+Story+of+the+War%22&sort=publicdate ''The Children's Story of the War''] by Sir Edward Parrott. Ten volumes published 1915-1919. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Harper%27s+Pictorial+Library+Of+The+World+War%29&sort=-publicdate ''Harper's Pictorial Library Of The World War''] 1920 Archive.org. Links to 12 volumes. The 12 titles are listed on the [https://archive.org/details/HarpersPictorialLibraryOfTheWorldWarV1 Volume 1] file.
*''The Story of the Great War''. Published by Collier and Son, New York in sixteen volumes. [https://archive.org/details/storyofgreatwarc02reyniala Scroll down to Contents outline]. There is an associated eight volume series, (perhaps condensed to 80%, with fewer illustrations) with some editions titled ''The Story of the Great War. History of the European War from Official Sources. Complete Historical Record of Events to date''. Edited by Francis J Reynolds and Allen L Churchill , published c 1916-1920.
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