Guernsey is marking the 80th anniversary of the International Red Cross SS Vega first visiting the island in December 1944.

Model celebrates 70th anniversary of Red Cross parcels arriving in the Channel Islands Christmas lunch for Channel Islanders in 1944 was a meagre affair and only the arrival of the Red Cross ship ...

It began with one used golf club, sent to a British military pilot detained in a German POW camp during World War II. Arriving in a Red Cross parcel but with no balls to hit, Sydney Smith had to ...

Even after the outbreak of World War II, the ICRC did little or ... But when the ICRC proposed to send food parcels to Auschwitz, the German Red Cross “claimed that the Jews were employed ...

were among many who received parcels to help sustain them. A WWII emergency response box (RED CROSS) He said he can still remember the “wonderful” taste of powdered milk they contained.

RALEIGH - After a year and a half behind barbed wire as a prisoner in World War II, 2nd Lt. David C. Cox had just about reached his breaking point. Deliveries of Red Cross parcels to Stalag VII-A ...

The Red Cross has dispatched food parcels to British victims for the first time since the Second World War. The agency, more familiar with involvement in international disaster zones such as the ...

The SS Vega first visited Guernsey in December 1944 for the International Red ... Red Cross SS Vega first visiting the island in December 1944. It supplied more than 119,000 standard food parcels ...