Where did st john ambulance start?

Answer 1

St John Ambulance as an ambulance association is reletively modern.

The history of St John goes back over 900 years ago. In Jerusalem, there was a major lack of health care. Because of this, the hospitallers of st john set up health care which currently stands today as an opthalmic hospital. These hospitallers then went around with the crusaders and provided their services to the holy lands that were set up by the crusaders.

The crusades then moved to Malta and Rhodes which meant that the hospitallers were needed in those places to help the sick and injured pilgrims and crusaders. In 1306, the crusaders set up a headquarters and a hospital for the hospitallers to work in. Because of this relation with Malta, the logo of st john is the 8 pointed Malta cross.

The order spread across all christian lands including England. However, the order was banned by Henry the eighth.

St John was reinstated as there was a lack of medical care and transport. It was used heavilly in all of the wars to provide front line medical care to soldiers. They worked closely with the british red cross.

As the work of St John became more developed, the Order of St John was re named as St John Ambulance that we see today.

That's the history in a nutshell. More information can be found on the St John Ambulance website.

Answer 2

St John Ambulance started in 1099,Back then they were known as the hospitallers,

They were based in Jerusalem.

The Pope wrote to the leader of the Hospitallers (a person they called Brother)

saying that the Pope wanted the Leader of the Hospitallers to create a Organisation called the Order of St John.

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History

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In 1922 St John Ambulance Brigade Created the first Cadet Division in the UK.

In the 1950s St John Ambulance Brigade and St John Ambulance Association Became one to form St John Ambulance.

In 1987 St John Ambulance created the First Badger Division in the UK .

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Information

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Cadets 10 - 18 years

Badgers 5 - 10 years

Answer 3

St John Ambulance, aka, SJA, started about 1000 years ago, and back then it was known as the Knights Of St John, Order Of St John, they started in Jerusalem, and went to Malta, in Malta SJA got it's cross, the Maltese cross, aka SJA Logo

Answer 4

St John Ambulance branched off from the Royal Order of Chivalry, the Order of St John which was founded in Jerusalem in the year 1080 (during the First Crusade).

Officially, the St John Ambulance we now know started as the St John Ambulance Brigade in Clerkenwell, London, England.