The need for blood

Thanks to advances in blood transfusion practice and technology during the First World War, blood could be stored and shipped more safely during the Second World War - and therefore there was a greater need for blood donors.

Canadian Red Cross Society, Ontario Division, Mobile Blood Donor Service, appointment card to Luke Jeffery, Appin, Ontario, 24 May 1944

postcard, 8.7cm x 13.9cm
War, Memory and Popular Culture Archives - The University of Western Ontario - London, Ontario
Second World War