Thomas Lipton: Difference between revisions

During the [[First World War]], Lipton helped organisations of medical volunteers. He placed his yachts at the disposal of the Red Cross, the Scottish Women's Hospitals Committee of Dr. [[Elsie Inglis]], the [[Serbian SupportingRelief Fund]] and others, for the transport of medical volunteers (doctors and nurses) and medical supplies.<ref>{{cite book |date=1980 |last=Krippner |first=Monica |title= The Quality of Mercy: Women at War, Serbia 1914-1918 |publisher=David & Charles |location=London, UK |page=39 |ISBN= 0715378864}}</ref> In Serbia during the winter of 1914–1915 and the spring of 1915, several British hospital teams were working with Serbian military and civilian doctors and nurses. A catastrophic typhus epidemic erupted,<ref>{{cite journal |first=V. |last=Soubbotitch |date= 1917 |publication-date=1918 |title=A Pandemic of Typhus in Serbia in 1914 and 1915 |journal=[[Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine]] |volume=11 |issue=Sect Epidemiol State Med |pages=31–39 |pmc=2066452 |pmid=19980276 |doi=10.1177/003591571801101302}}</ref> killing thousands of civilians, soldiers, and prisoners of war; medical staff were among the first victims. At the height of the epidemic, Lipton decided to visit Serbia, travelling aboard his yacht ''Erin'' via Sardinia, Malta, Athens and Thessaloníki.