Australian Red Cross Society, 1941-1961

 
Component identifier:
Series 73
Content Summary:

Latham was Vice-President of the Australian Red Cross Society from 1944-1961 and in 1961 was awarded the Australian Red Cross Medal of Honour. The series contains the Royal Charter and Incorporation of Rules (1941), annual reports and notes on activities (1943-1949) minutes of meetings of the National Executive (1942-1947), notices of meetings, agenda, papers, and a report by J. Newman Morris on a visit to England, Canada and America. The correspondence, dating from June 1942-November 1961, with J. Newman Morris, A. G. Brown, Peter MacCallum and others, is mainly concerned with meetings and administrative matters, but there is some discussion of civil defence.

There are some other Red Cross Society papers in Series 78.

Comprises Files 1-6 (Items 1- 161).

Immediate source of acquisition:
The bulk of the collection was presented to the National Library by Sir John Latham in December 1963, a few months before his death. In November 1974 the Library purchased some further papers from a secondhand book dealer. They comprised family letters and photographs, some diaries and papers relating to the High Court. These papers have been amalgamated into the original collection.

Access and use

Parent Restrictions:
Available for research. Not for loan.
Parent Terms of Access:
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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