Show international hiter national red cross grew out of eye witness story of italian battle ba atle in 1802 1862 genrl dunant a swiss who had been an eye witness wrote a graphic account ot of the battle of solferino ile he told of the buffe suffering ring of the wounded soldiers and discussed the possibility ot of organizing in all civilized countries permanent societies of volunteers to care for or the wounded of all nationalities in time of war A lawyer from geneva named gustave joynter read Du nants book As president of a local philanthropic society joynter appointed a committee of five members of the society to consider the possibility of putting Du nants plan into action the committee of five the then n I 1 issued S an invitation to all european governments and military medical and nd philanthropic societies to send delegates to a conference to be held at geneva on october 26 1863 the 36 delegates who attended the now famous geneva convention recommended om orn that relief societies be formed in each nation authorized by the government of that nution nation and operating cooperating co with its army the original committee of five became the international red cross committee in 1919 1910 the league of red cross societies was founded thus uniting all the separate national red cross societies and in 1928 was instituted the international red cross conference governing body of the international red cross |