From 26-29 October 1863, an international conference met in Geneva at the invitation of a small committee. It passed a series of resolutions, the first of which determined the creation of a committee, in each country, to combine with the Army Medical Services in the event of war, and the eighth of which created the white armlet with the red cross superimposed. The Conference also expressed wishes which in the following year were the subject of the first Geneva Convention.
This Conference of 1863 saw the birth of the International Red Cross.
Details
- Date of Issue: 2 September 1963
- Date Withdrawn: 2 December 1963
- Date Invalidated:
- Designer: Victor Whiteley
- Printer: Bradbury Wilkinson & Co Ltd, New Malden, Surrey, England
- Process: Recess
- Paper:
- Watermark: Block CA
- Perf: 13.5 (comb)
- Plates: 1 1 : 1a 1a [Left pane : Right pane]
- Sheet: Printed in two panes of 120, separated by a gutter. Guillotined through gutter into two single panes (R5 x 12).
- Quantity:
Subjects
First Day Covers (Unofficial)
