The equivalent of the UK Ministry of Defence has a special section, named in the Ministry’s title, to deal with Veterans & War Victims – indeed there is a National Office – set up for this very purpose, similar to the MoD’s own Veteran’s Advisory & Pensions Committees, but seemingly offering wider range of services for Veterans, Widow(er)s & Orphans all under one roof, so to speak.
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Ministere de la Defense et des Anciens Combattants - France
The campaign to bomb civilians was so controversial that the bombers were giv...
Founder and director of the Jewish Refugees Committee. Died London. From Jewish Telegraph Agency, 1952 obituary: "Mr. Schiff was instrumental in rescuing some 12,000 Jews from Germany during the f...
Trustee of the Putney Pest House Charity, 1862.
A campaign by Florence Nightingale and Edwin Chadwick led to the establishment of this board. It dealt with London's sick poor (but excluding those in Penge, for some reason), those with infectio...
She was born as Eleanor Jane Portal on 13 May 1854 in Oakley, Basingstoke, Hampshire, the second daughter and the third of the seven children of Sir William Spencer Portal, 1st Baronet (1822-1905) ...
Housing reformer and co-founder of The National Trust. Born at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, her father's eighth daughter (yes, really). She believed that social housing should be small houses (rather...
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