Aid Abroad: The Stafford House Committee in Turkey

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Date:1876 - 1878 (c.)

Description:Amongst the printed material relating to the Stafford House Committee’s involvement in the Russo-Turkish War, 1877-78, is the ‘Report & Record of the Operations of the Stafford House Committee for the Relief of Sick and Wounded Turkish Soldiers’. This final printed report produced by the Committee provides an overview of the aims and achievements of the scheme. The report summarises the work of the Committee and also reports on its operations in relation to military events and the distribution of stores.

The final report informs us that at a meeting on 12th December 1876, George Granville William Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1828-1892), the third Duke of Sutherland, chaired a meeting ‘to consider what steps could be taken to alleviate the great sufferings which prevailed amongst the Turkish soldiers’.

At the meeting, the report states that it was decided ‘to form a Committee, of which the Duke of Sutherland was unanimously elected Chairman, for the purpose of inviting subscriptions from the public with a view to supplying sick and wounded Turkish soldiers with warm clothing and medicines’.

To learn more about the Stafford House Committee's work in the Russo-Turkish War, click on the images on the left.