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Description: | Wooden office chair with brass plate engraved 'Major E W Paget CBE France & Belgium 1914-1919'. Presented as a souvenir to Major Paget who was Director of Transport of The British Red Cross and The Order of St John during the First World War to commemorate his role. He was responsible for organising the vehicles into convoys capable of evacuating the wounded and transporting them to hospitals. It was also used by Major Paget when he worked for the Joint Council Order of St John and British Red Cross Society in the transport section after the First World War. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | British Red Cross Museum and Archives | Rights holder: | British Red Cross Museum and Archives | Subjects: | Science and Medicine | Temporal: | 1914-1919 | Source: | Red Cross Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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