Florence Nightingale’s lamp and coded wartime quilt star in new Red Cross museum

Detail from the quilt made by women in Changi prison and given to the Red Cross during the second world war

A quilt stitched with coded messages by allied female prisoners of war and a lamp believed to have been used by Florence Nightingale are among the “objects of kindness” that are to go on display for the first time this week.

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