Events In History
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12 March 1975New Zealand Red Cross worker killed in Vietnam
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. Read more...
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19 April 1884First royal honour for New Zealand woman
The Royal Red Cross was awarded to Miss Annie Alice Crisp, Lady Superintendent of Auckland Hospital, in a ceremony at Government House, Auckland. Read more...
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Main image: Red Cross train, 1915
Wounded men returnign from Gallipoli who lived in North Island towns along the Main Trunk Line were transported home from Wellington by New Zealand's first-ever military 'Red Cross Train'.