Military Nurses (Royal Red Cross)
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- 1861 Worldwide Army Index
- Army Deserters 1828-1840
- Army List 1787
- Army List 1798
- Army List August 1878
- British Army Service Records 1760-1915
- Grenadier Guards 1656 - 1874
- Harts Army List 1840
- Harts Army List 1888
- Manchester Regiment City Battalions 1914-1916
- Military Nurses (Royal Red Cross)
- Military Nurses 1856-1994
- Napoleonic War Records 1775 - 1817
- Oldham Pals 1914-1920
- Oldham Pals Roll Of Honour
- Paddington Rifles 1860-1912
- Royal Air Force Muster Roll 1918
- Royal Fusiliers Collection 1863-1905
- Surrey Recruitment Registers 1908-1933
Information about Military Nurses (Royal Red Cross)
This dataset contains 8093 records from a period of over 110 years. The Royal Red Cross (RRC) was first awarded in 1883 'for special exertions in providing for the nursing, or for attending to, sick and wounded soldiers and sailors'. So special was this award that by the outbreak of WWI only 246 women had been considered worthy of the honour during the preceding 31 years. With new classes of medal introduced, this rose to 6,741 by 1922. Fewer were awarded during WWII and peacetime and men became eligible for the first time in 1976. The RRC awards are entered in three ledgers, the originals of which are held at The National Archives in class WO145.