Loose scrap-book pages containing newspaper and journal cuttings

Subjects covered are: development of first aid methods and training; Cantlie's call for general first aid teaching to whole population; the ambulance movement and Cantlie's role; work of the Red Cross Society and College of Ambulance in the First World War and after; mobile x-ray unit of the Mobile X-Ray Ambulance Section of the College of Ambulance, presented by the Eccentric Club, 1921; Cantlie's recommendation that first aid be taught as a special branch of surgery; proposal for a 'parson's ambulance corps'; new style of moveable army hut/emergency hospital; Cantlie's endorsement of a machine for armless men; Royal patronage of the College of Ambulance including a V.A.D. organised by Princess Mary during the War comprising 30 personal friends meeting twice weekly at Buckingham Palace to receive a course of lectures by Cantlie on first aid; funeral service of Princess Charistian (daughter of Queen Victoria and former President of the College of Ambulance) at St George's Chapel, Windsor, 16 Jun 1923, attended by Cantlie, memorial for Sun Yat Sen in London, Apr 1925; announcement of betrothal of princess Mary to Viscount Lascelles D.S.O., eldest son of the Earl of Harewood, Nov 1921; work of V.A.D.s in London during the First World War; Cantlie's 'physical jerks' for elderly men and comments against babies' comforters (dummies) and perambulators (Cantlie said that babies should be carried by their mothers or nannies and not stuck in the pram with a water bottle which is at first too hot then cools down).