ST. JOHN AMBULANCE BRIGADE

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 90, 13 October 1914, Page 9

ST. JOHN AMBULANCE BRIGADE

SOME WORK AND SOME HELPERS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRMPONUtNT.) LONDON, 2?th August. Seeing that the St. John Ambulance Brigade has corps and divisions all over New Zealand, with a membership approximating 1600, it will be of interest to mention something of the work which the brigade is doing in London at the moment. Under Article 10 of the Geneva Convention it forms part of the Red Crow organisation. Already about 4000 members have been mobilised for active service. More than 2000 have been enrolled for the Military Home Hospitals Reserve, 1000 for the Royal Naval Auxiliary Sick Berth Reserve. 600 for the R.A.M.C., and a number (including 100 skilled nurses') are On duty in Belgium, two of these being Nurses Butler and M'Leod, from New Zealand.

Voluntary aid detachments, drawn from the St. John Ambulance ( Brigade, are springing up in all directions, and one of these detachments for women meets daily at St. John’s Gate, where the members are getting equipments rehdy for active service. This work is being done under the persona) direction oi the Duchess of Bedford/ and among

those who are actively engaged are Lady Constance Milnes Gaskell and Lady Ei* leen Knox, the daughters of Lord and Lady -Ranfurly. Lady Constance, it will be recalled, took a course of nursing at Charing Cross Hospital only a few months ago, in readiness for probable work in Ulster. Through the instrumentality of Mrs. J. C. Dalton,- wife of Major-General Dalton, Mrs. W. B. Fisher, of Wellington, has been appointed to this detachment, and hopes to do her share as a New Zealander.

The St. John Ambulance Brigade has also supplied orderlies for the hospitals being equipped respectively by the Duchess of Westminster and tho Countess of Dudley, while the Knights, Ladies, and other members of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem are promoting various schemes for the alleviation of suffering and distress.