Description
New Made Item: Top Quality Embroidery, this is a reproduction copied directly from an original in the IMA collection. White cotton arm band stitched closed (like the originals) for use with a safety pin to tighten (pin not included). Bright red heavily embroidered red cross and black script that reads; Deutsches Rotes Kreuz. White border stitches along entire length of band, high quality, constructed just like the originals.
Approximate dimensions:
4″ Wide x 16″ circumference
It was important to clearly identify Medical personnel in the field. One of the early documents, such as the Amelioration of the Conditions of the Wounded in Armies in the Field signed August 22, 1864, by a number of Governments, already instructed that Flag and Arm Badges worn by Medical personnel would bear a Red Cross on a White Field. Both symbols when used on Hospitals, Ambulances, Evacuation and Aid Centers, were to be proof of their neutral status! These signs provided for neutrality of military and civilian protected personnel (it gave them non-belligerent status) exclusively engaged in removal, transportation, and treatment of wounded and sick, or the administration of sanitary formations and establishments, and entitled them to respect and protection from their enemies. The 1929 Geneva Convention which superseded the former agreement, was signed on July…
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