Indian Ambulance Gazette

The Gazette was intended to be a quarterly journal to provide a record of ambulance work in India, Burma (Myanmar), and The East. From April 1915, the Gazette was styled as ‘The organ of the Red Cross in India, Burma and the East’, but the Indian Council of the St John Ambulance Association (SJAA) continued to recognise the Gazette as their official organ too, and it started to be designed similarly to the St John Gazette, St John’s organisational publication in Britain. The publications include reports from Annual Meetings of the Indian Branch of the SJAA, articles on SJAA and St John Ambulance Brigade (SJAB) work in India and across the world, SJAA and SJAB news, articles on first aid practice and sanitation (some with illustrations), information on the training materials available to the Indian Branch, reports from the SJAA Centres in India, information on the honours and Awards given to members of the SJAA and SJAB in India, reports on first aid competitions, information on Red Cross work in India, information on relevant SJAA, SJAB, and Red Cross work pertaining to the First World War, and photographs of SJAA and SJAB members and transportation in India. The reports also contain contemporary advertisements for first aid equipment and uniform.

The Gazette was suspended ‘for the duration of the war’ after the October 1917 publication, due to the scarcity of paper and rising costs of publication.