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The War Council Medal
A special committee was appointed by the General Board at its
meeting February 15, 1919, to take the necessary steps to have a special
medal presented to the members of the War Council.
The medal was designed by Daniel C. French and executed under his
direction. The medals given to the members of the War Council were struck
in gold. They were presented at the annual meeting of the American Red
Cross on December , 1920.1
1
For list of those receiving medals, see notes attached on p.
The medal was two and one half inches in diameter. On the obverse,
in high relief, was represented the symbolic head of an American soldier. On
the reverse is a Red Cross nurse standing erect over a prostrate wounded soldier.
The two figures are posed in the form of a cross and are appropriately enclosed in
the typical form of an American Red Cross.
An inscription also appeared on the reverse of the medal:
The American Red Cross
To commemorate the vision and achievement
of the War Council
1917
1919
Each medal bore on its rim the name of its recipient. Each was, therefore,
unique.
1
I A picture of the medal may be found in the Permanent File under 461.3,
War Council Medal.
Because interest in the medal was great and its beauty exoptional,
the special committee, with the approval of
,
made arrangements
with the American Numismatic Society to have a replica
bronze of the medal
struck which would be available to chapters, museums and individuals at $6.00.1
I This information derived from a draft attached to letter of Jason S. Joy,
Assistant to the Chairman, to Eliot Wadsworth, January 3, 1921. (461.3 War
Council Medals)
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