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Red Cross nurses in procession during peace celebrations at Port Chalmers in July 1919

New Zealand soldiers standing beneath a red cross flag, Gallipoli, Turkey in 1915

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

Hear William Duncan talking about food in POW camps

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