# The Queen's Book of the Red Cross

The Queen's Book of the Red Cross was published in November 1939 in a fundraising effort to aid the Red Cross during World War II. The book was sponsored by Queen Elizabeth, and its contents were contributed by fifty British authors and artists.

## List of authors and artists
### Authors

* A. E. W. Mason, "The Conjurer", a story
* Hugh Walpole, "The Church in the Snow", a story
* John Masefield, "Red Cross", a poem
* Ian Hay, "The Man Who Had Something Against Him"
* Charles Morgan, "Creative Imagination", an essay
* D. L. Murray, "Only a Sojer!", a story
* T. S. Eliot, "The Marching Song of the Pollicle Dogs", a poem
* T. S. Eliot, "Billy M'Caw: The Remarkable Parrot", a poem
* H. M. Tomlinson, "Ports of Call", a story
* A. A. Milne, "The General Takes Off His Helmet", a play
* Cecil Roberts, "Down Ferry Lane"
* E. M. Delafield, "The Provincial Lady in War-time", a story
* Cedric Hardwicke, "One Man in His Time Plays Many Parts"
* Daphne du Maurier, "The Escort", a story
* Ann Bridge, "Looking Back on May the Sixth, 1935"
* Jan Struther, "Mrs. Miniver Makes a List", a story
* Eric Ambler, "The Army of Shadows", a story
* Howard Marshall, "The Fisherman's England"
* Humfrey Jordan, "The Boatswain Yawned", a story
* Alfred Noyes, "A Child's Gallop", a poem
* Alfred Noyes, "The Stranger", a poem
* O. Douglas, "Such an Odd War!", a story
* Howard Spring, "Christmas Honeymoon", a story
* Dorothy Whipple, "No Robbery", a story
* Lord Mottistone, "Tell Them, Warrior"
* L. A. G. Strong, "A Gift from Christy Keogh", a story
* Walter de la Mare, "And So To Bed", a poem
* Walter de la Mare, "Joy", a poem
* Denis Mackail, "It's the Thought That Counts", a story
* Gracie Fields, "On Getting Better"
* C. H. Middleton, "Keep That Garden Going"
* Georgette Heyer, "Pursuit", a story
* Edith Evans, "The Patriotism of Shakespeare", an essay
* H. C. Bailey, "The Thistle Down", a story
* C. Day-Lewis, "Orpheus and Eurydice", a translation from Virgil's "Georgics"
* Ruby Ferguson, "Mrs. Memmary's Visitors", a story
* J. B. Morton, "A Love Song"
* Frank Smythe, "The Crag"
* Mary Thomas, "Our Knitting Forces"
* Collie Knox, "This Flag Still Flies over All Mankind", homage to the Red Cross

### Artists

* Cecil Beaton, a photograph of the Queen
* William Russell Flint, The Words of His Majesty the King, a picture
* Edmund Dulac, a picture
* Frank Brangwyn, a picture
* J. Morton Sale, The Red Cross of Comfort, a picture
* Edmund Blampied, The Symbol, a picture
* Dame Laura Knight, Hop Pickers, a picture
* Bip Pares, a picture
* Arthur Wragg, a picture
* Norman Wilkinson, a picture
* Rex Whistler, In the Wilderness, a picture
* Mabel Lucie Attwell, a picture
* Ivor Novello, We'll Remember, a manuscript of a war song

## Bibliographic information

Elizabeth, Queen consort of George VI, King of Great Britain; T S Eliot; John Masefield; British Red Cross Society; Knights of Malta (1939). The Queen's book of the Red Cross : with a message from Her Majesty the Queen and contributions by fifty British authors and artists : in aid of the Lord Mayor of London's fund for the Red Cross and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. London: Hodder and Stoughton.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) OCLC 1011946