Returning from leave in Laos, 30-year-old Malcolm ‘Mac’ Riding was on board an Air Vietnam DC4 when it crashed 25 km from his Red Cross team’s compound near Pleiku, South Vietnam.
Red Cross
Events In History
19 April 1884
The Royal Red Cross was awarded to Miss Annie Alice Crisp, Lady Superintendent of Auckland Hospital, in a ceremony at Government House, Auckland.
Main image: Red Cross railway carriage, 1915
An interior view of a railway carriage specially fitted out as a hospital car, 1915.