Figure 1.--Here we see a British Junior Red Cross (BJRC) event an an unidentified British school. One of the projects taken up by the Red Cross was to assist the Indians expelled from Uganda by Idi Amin in 1972. The BJRC did its part with the Indian refufees who came to Britain. The press caption read, "A big welcome for Parmul Karia, 9, one of 150 Uganda Asian children who joined the Brotisj Junior Red Cross Society at Greenham Common RAF Station, Berks, yesterday, out of gratitude for what the Society had done for them since they came to Britain. With Parmul is her sponsor, Sarah Newbury. The photograph was taken March 24, 1973.

The Red Cross had a junior division. We have been unanle to find much information about the British Junior Red Cross (BJRC)s. It appears to have been a school-based group. Unlike other British youth groyps, there do not seem to be separate Ebglish, Northern Irish, Scottish, and Welsh groups. It was the children's branch of the Red Cross Organisation, a world-wide organization with national chapters. It is a voluntary, non-governmental, non-political, non- sectarian and international in character. The goals are to promotion of health, personal hygiene, school hygiene and community hygiene. Service to others especially in relation to health. And promotion of fellowship among, and friendly helpfulness towards, other young people of all countries. A Junior Red Cross Society helps put up posters and charts. They may stage health plays. The members of the Junior Red Cross Society assist the medical officer at the time of medical inspection of the students. Usually a Junior Red Cross Society maintain a small dispensary and a library containing books dealing with health and disease. Usually the members take Red Cross First Aid courses and help to popularize the courses with other students. There does not seem to have been a uniform The image here suggests that the members simply added a beret to their school uniform. As best we can tell the BJRC was more popular in the 20th than the 21st century.