By the steamer “Mariposa” on Friday, April 21, bound for New South Wales, a sergeant and a squad from the Grand Legion of the Red Cross, California Branch, accompanied the Columbia Park Boys’ Club upon their six months’ tour of the Antipodes.
With their credentials went a recommendation to Major G. L. Mullins, M. D. Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Commissioner of the Commonwealth of Australia.
San Francisco, March 18, 1909.
This is to certify that Leon Wing, sergeant of a squad from the detachment known as the “Columbia Park Boy’s Detachment of the Grand Legion of the Red Cross” is a duly accredited representative of the California Branch of the American National Red Cross, a branch of the International Red Cross established under the Treaty of Geneva.
We extend the hand of fraternity to the St. John’s Ambulance Association of Great Britain and recommend this squad and its sergeant to the kind offices of those representatives of the St. John’s Ambulance Association in Australia.
The Columbia Park Boy’s club has set a national standard of efficiency in training boys in clean living, thinking and athletes and it is both the pride and pleasure of the California Branch of the American National Red Cross to wish this, the first squad of a detachment of the Grand Legion of the Red Cross to visit another nation, God speed and a hearty welcome in the Antipodes.
(Signed)
BENJAMIN IDE WHEELER, President.
MRS. JOHN F. MERRILL, First Vice-President.
MRS. THURLOW McMULLIN, State Secretary.
DR. G. H. RICHARDSON, Field Agent.
WM. LATHROP MCCLURE, Sec. Legion (Asst. Dir.)