From that battle Dunant determined to form a body of people who would rally together in times of war and attend to the needs of wounded and dying. Dunant held that a suffering human being should be helped for his own sake only and (1)__________________________.
Many European states supported him and on 22nd August 1864 the first Geneva Convention was signed. This lays down that once a soldier is wounded he and (2)_____________________. A symbol by which the relief workers could be recognized was devised.
As a tribute to Switzerland, (3)_______________________. That is a red cross on a white ground. So the Red Cross was born.
