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Hear William Duncan talking about food in POW camps

Four Hutt Hospital Red Cross babies with their mothers, and Mr Jack Andrew, president of the Lower Hutt Red Cross, circa 10 May 1969.

Eleanor Roosevelt signs the visitors' book at the Red Cross Cecil Club in Wellington

Because there was so little of it, food played a very important part in a POW's life. The International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva provided food parcels to POWs from those countries which were signatories to the 1929 Geneva Convention.

The Americans brought their sweet tooth with them. Here an American Red Cross worker demonstrates how to make sodas to two Wellington women

The American Red Cross provided extensive facilities for the Americans on 'liberty passes' in town. Here marines line up to enter the Red Cross's Cecil Club in Wellington

Marines on 'liberty passes' have their clothes mended by willing volunteers at the Red Cross's Cecil Club in Wellington