British Red Cross Overseas Branches 1896 - 2008
According to the Red Cross principle of unity, there can only be one Red Cross or one Red Crescent Society in any one country. It must be open to all and must carry on its humanitarian work throughout its territory. Therefore in territories administered from Britain, Red Cross work took the form of a Branch of the British Red Cross. When the territory gained independent nationhood, a National Society was formed and was recognised by the International Red Cross and Red Crescent movement
Current Overseas Branches and Committees are in italics.
Date Branch/Committee formed National Society formed
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1896 Canada: Canadian Red Cross Society 1909
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1913 Australia: Australian Red Cross Society 1927
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1916 New Zealand Branch of BRCS and Order of St John: New Zealand Red Cross Society 1932
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1930 Kenya: Kenya Red Cross 1965
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1930 Southern Rhodesia (1937 became Central Council Branch): Zimbabwe Red Cross 1981
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1932 Gold Coast: Ghana Red Cross 1959
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1932 Swaziland: Baphalali Swaziland Red Cross Society 1970
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1933 Nyasaland: Malawi 1966
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1935 Seychelles: Seychelles Red Cross Society 1990
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1937 Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone Red Cross 1962
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1938 Ceylon (Central Council Branch): Sri Lanka Red Cross 1949
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1939 Trinidad and Tobago (Central Council Branch): Trinidad and Tobago Red Cross 1963
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1941 Antigua: Antigua and Barbuda 1983
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1941 Mauritius: Mauritius Red Cross Society 1973
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1941 Uganda (Central Council Branch): Uganda Red Cross Society 1964
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1942 St Kitts and Nevis: St Kitts and Nevis Red Cross Society 1985
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1942 Nigeria: Nigeria Red Cross 1961
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1947 Newfoundland: Became a Province of Canada 1948
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1948 Bechuanaland: Botswana 1968
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1948 British Guiana: Guyana 1967
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1948 Gibraltar (Central Council Branch until 1957)
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1948 Jamaica: Jamaica Red Cross 1962
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1948 North Borneo: Sabah (part of Malaysian Red Cross Society. Malaysian Red Crescent Society from 1975) 1962
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| 1948 Sarawak, part of Malaysian Red Cross Society 1962. Malaysian Red Crescent Society from 1975 |
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1948 Brunei: Brunei Darussalam Red Crescent Society 1984
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1949 The Gambia: Gambia Red Cross Society 1965
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1949 Hong Kong: Joined Chinese Red Cross 1997
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1949 St Lucia: St Lucia Red Cross 1979
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1949 St Vincent: St Vincent and the Grenadines Red Cross 1984
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1949 Singapore: Singapore Red Cross Society 1962
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1949 Tanganyika: (following merger between Tanganyika and Zanzibar) Tanzania Red Cross Society 1964
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1949/50 Northern Rhodesia: Zambia Red Cross Society 1964
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1950 Basutoland: Lesotho Red Cross Society 1967
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1950 British Honduras: Belize 1983
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1950 Fiji: Fiji Red Cross Society 1971
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1951 Federation of Malaya: part of Malaysian Red Cross Society 1962. Malaysian Red Crescent Society from 1975 1962
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1951 Solomon Islands: Solomon Islands Red Cross 1983
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| 1953 Zanzibar: (following merger between Tanganyika and Zanzibar) Tanzania Red Cross Society 1962 | |
1954 British Somaliland: Somali Red Crescent Society 1960
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1955 St Helena: Inactive 2007
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1956 Grenada (as Committee, 1959 Branch): Grenada 1981
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1958 Dominica: Dominica Red Cross 1983
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1958 Aden: (Dem Rep of) South Yemen 1967
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1959 Barbados (Committee 1955): Barbados Red Cross 1969
Committees
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1952 Malta: Malta Red Cross 1991
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1953 Zanzibar: Joined Tanganyika (q.v.)Tanzania Red Cross Society 1964
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1956 New Hebrides (Condo): Vanuatu 1982
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1960 British Virgin Islands
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1961/2 Tonga: Tonga Red Cross Society 1972
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1965 Gilbert and Ellice Islands: Kiribati Red Cross 1989
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1967 Turks and Caicos Islands
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| 1977 Tuvalu (formerly part of Ellice Islands): Tuvalu (National Society pending recognition 2007) 1981
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* St Kitts/Nevis/Anguilla
The two islands of St Kitts and Nevis, together with Anguilla, were united in 1882, and became an independent state in association with the United Kingdom in 1967. There were objections by Anguilla to the administration, which it considered to be dominated by St Kitts, and independence was declared by Anguilla later that year. Negotiations to resolve the dispute failed, and after being placed directly under British control in 1971, Anguilla was granted its own constitution in 1975 and union with St Kitts and Nevis formally severed in 1980.
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