[1] As well as supporting, co-ordinating and inspecting these organisations, it raised money itself and established its own branch to pack aid parcels.
[9] Sir Leander Starr Jameson was the chairman[1] until his death in November 1917, when he was replaced by George Montagu, 9th Earl of Sandwich.
[11] Sir Ivor Philipps MP continued to call for the members of the committee to resign, claiming they were causing "suffering and misery to British soldiers".
[15] Food parcels, packed in cardboard boxes, weighed about 10 pounds each and about 14,000 were despatched by the Central Committee three times a fortnight.
[2] The Central Committee established a depot in Copenhagen to supply bread to prisoners in Germany, but due to major problems this soon closed, fuelling the accusations of mismanagement.