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At the same time that regulations were set forth for the award
of bronze medals, a form was issued, providing for basic information such as
the description of the service rendered, the cause of death and place of
death. It also provided places for approval by certain prescribed persons
for different types of service, whether under a division, chapter, or depart-
ment. 1
Nurses were determined to be eligible for the bronze medal
whether under the Army or Navy or the Red Cross, provided they had been en-
rolled by the Red Cross. The same rules as stated above applied to them.
Recommendations were to come from the Red Cross Department of Nursing and
were distributed by that department.
C. Citizens of allied countries:
The Committee on Awards accepted and the Executive Committee
approved recommendations made by Red Cross commissioners abroad for the award
of silver and bronze medals to citizens of allied countries who had rendered
service to the American Red Cross. The Committee on Awards exercised con-
siderable judgment in the making of these awards and was compelled to do so
since the standards which it had to set up were not thoroughly understood by
the commissioners abroad. In some cases the commissioners requested medals
for persons to whom they felt it necessary to do an act of courtesy. In
others, no recommendations were made till very many months after the close
of hostilities. In some cases, the Committee felt it desirable to award a
bronze medal where a silver medal had been recommended originally, or vice
versa (perhaps there had been some supplementary correspondence on these
matters).
The largest number of medals might have been awarded to citizens
of France. When recommendations were first sought of the commissioner in
France, he replied that he felt it impossible to submit any because of the
tremendous number who had served. At last, he sent some names at the in-
sistence of the committee. Apparently, however, it was at length decided
that it was indeed impossible to do justice to all the Frenchmen who had
rendered important service. No record is made of any award to French citi-
zens, and the Chairman of the Central Committee was requested to look into
the matter of a general form of memorial when he went abroad in 1920. 2
For work in Russia, apparently the only medal was that awarded
to a Scottish nurse. Conditions had been too unsettled to award any medals
to Russian nationals. Suggested names were filed for further action.
Persons or committees (such as the Comité de la Repatriament
de Basel) which had served the army primarily were not awarded Red Cross
medals. The Comite mentioned was called to the attention of the War De-
partment.
1. General manager's letter, February 12, 1920; Documents of Record, Com-
mittee on Awards, pages 226 ff.
2. Minutes, Committee on Awards, pages 104-5; Documents of Record, Commit-
tee on Awards, pages 282 ff.
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