Letter from Edward Benning, Belgian Red Cross, to John H. Billinge, Belgian Funds Committee, 9 August 1918 Letters 1916-1923 Edward Benning

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This letter is part of a three-sided correspondence between the Irish War Hospital Supply Depot in Dublin, the Belgian Funds Committee in Manchester, and the Belgian Red Cross in London. The Belgian Funds Committee, represented by John H. Billinge as Hon. Secretary and Treasurer, arranged for the Irish War Hospital Supply Depot to regularly ship medical items to the Belgian Red Cross in London, where they were used to treat wounded Belgian soldiers. Eleanor Dallas Pratt, Catholic wife of a respected Anglican surgeon based in Dublin, served as Hon. Secretary to the Irish War Hospital Supply Depot. The letters on behalf of the Belgian Red Cross were written by M. Albert Maeterlinck and C. E. R. Abbott. Maeterlinck was a Belgian national and returned home in January 1919. All files are kept at the Manchester Central Library. The bound volume also contains the lists all dispatched supplies and letters of thanks or supplication from soldiers and their families.

 Manchester Central Library GB127.M138/2435, Belgian Red Cross files, 1916-1919: File No. 5 "Belgian Red Cross Fund" (not paged) https://letters1916.ie/item/5978 English Edward Benning 1918-08-09 Belgian Red Cross, Anglo-Belgian Committee, 48 Grosvenor Gardens, London, S. W. 1, England John Harold Billinge 12 Booth Street, Manchester, England Male World War I (1914-1918) Medicine

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 BELGCROIX RUGE DE BELIQUE BELGIAN RED CROSS 48 Grosvenor Gardnes, S.W.L. London August 9th 1918 Received 12AUG1918 Dear Mr Billinge, In answer to your letter of the 24th ult. we have pleasure in informing you that we have received a further bale of Hospital requisites from the Irish War Hospital Supply Depot. Knowing we owe this gift to your kindness, we wish to tender you our warmest thanks for same. With kind regards, yours sincerely Edward Benning John Billinge Esq. I2, Booth Street Manchester 12 Booth Street, Manchester, England Letter from M. Albert Maeterlinck, Belgian Red Cross, to John H. Billinge, 16 May 1918Letter from Edward Benning, Belgian Red Cross, to John H. Billinge, Belgian Funds Committee, 9 August 1918 Belgian Red Cross, Anglo-Belgian Committee, 48 Grosvenor Gardens, London, S. W. 1, England Letter from M. Albert Maeterlinck, Belgian Red Cross, to John H. Billinge, 16 May 1918Copy of a letter from John H. Billinge, Hon. Secretary of the Belgian Funds Committee, to M. Albert Maeterlinck, Belgian Red Cross, 24 July 1918Copy of a letter from John H. Billinge to M. Albert Maeterlinck, Belgian Red Cross, 26 July 1918Letter from Edward Benning, Belgian Red Cross, to John H. Billinge, Belgian Funds Committee, 9 August 1918 Edward Benning Letter from Edward Benning, Belgian Red Cross, to John H. Billinge, Belgian Funds Committee, 9 August 1918