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2015.0029 [ANNUAL REPORTS OF RED CROSS DIVISIONS AND BLOOD SERVICE]
Date Range of Records: 1914-2007
Creator(s):
- Australian Red Cross Society, National Office [1914-]
[Red Cross Archives series reference: NO26]

Comprises annual reports received by the National Office of the Australian Red Cross from its state and territory divisions and from the Blood Service. Annual reports of the National Office itself are not included in this series - refer to Series number 2015.0027.

Contains annual reports from the Divisions of the: Northern Territory (1941-2001), Queensland (1914-2004), Australian Capital Territory (1953-2001), Western Australian (1915-2005), New South Wales (1915-2005), Norfolk Island (1940-1947). Tasmanian (1915-2005), South Australian (1915-2006), Victorian (1914-2007), as well as from the National Blood Transfusion Service later known as the Blood Transfusion Service (1989-2006).
University of Melbourne Archives holds a digital copy of the Annual Reports of the Victorian Division of the Australian Red Cross for the years 1914-2006, which are available to researchers upon request. The digital copy was made by the Red Cross and has been made from another version of the Victorian Division minutes - not the one maintained by the National Office as part of series 2015.0029 - and in places there are annotations or attachments in one version which differ from the other version.

See also published Annual Reports including Financial Expenditure (2005 - present) http://www.redcross.org.au/annual-reports.aspx

Some Victorian Division Reports digitised and available on request

Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff.
16 units (2.7m)
Collection Category: Community and Political, organisations
Access Conditions: Access: Open
Finding Aids: Yes listed ONLINE
Online ListingANNUAL REPORTS OF RED CROSS DIVISIONS AND BLOOD SERVICE (2015.0029)
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