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Joyce Cross describing the role of the Red Cross in helping her brother as a prisoner of war
Transcript: "When he was a prisoner of war my Mother was told to go to the Red Cross and organise the parcels and that was interesting because we’re still talking about Gosport. We went to this big house that had been commandeered and coming down the steps was a very smart lady in the Red Cross uniform. She shook hands with us and asked us what we were doing there and my Mother said. “Oh” she said “I hope your son will be fine” and off she went in a car and you didn’t see many cars then because private cars were laid up and when we got into the building they said “Did you know who that was? That was Lady Mountbatton”, who was the president. From then on they took particulars and organised the parcels. It took quite a few months before they actually got out there and they got organised with them. The one thing I did find out from him was that his headmaster from school had organised through Rothman twenty cigarettes every month that went out for five years to my brother."
