Henry Pomeroy Davison

Davison helped convene the national Red Cross societies that formed the League of Red Cross Societies in 1919, now the IFRC. The aim was to carry wartime experience into peacetime health and relief work. Distinguish this foundation from the earlier creation of the ICRC and from the national societies themselves. His contribution becomes more interesting when the federation is understood as an agreement among organisations, whose volunteers and later members supplied its continuing reach.