Wikipedia's article on St John Ambulance, the first aid and charitable organization descended from the Order of St John, is a crowd sourced, not independently peer reviewed encyclopedia entry. It is reliable for standard identifying facts such as its founding and structure, and less reliable for detailed claims about its charitable operations in any one country, which the organization's own national bodies document more specifically.
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Reliability Tier3
Bare Wikipedia community article, tier 3, matching this corpus's settled precedent for this source class. NotesTertiary reference, read directly for this entry. States the St John Ambulance Association was founded on 10 July 1877 in England to teach first aid in large railway centres and mining districts, and that its first uniformed first-aiders were founded in June 1887 as the St John Ambulance Brigade. States the Order of St John founded the Association and oversees its work, owning the St John name and the Maltese Cross logo, and that the Order itself was granted a royal charter by Queen Victoria on 14 May 1888. States the Association and the Brigade were amalgamated in 1974 to form the St John Ambulance Foundation, and that the organization today counts roughly 200,000 volunteers across more than 40 national organizations worldwide. Reliability tier 3: a tertiary encyclopedia reference, used here only for uncontested founding-history detail that does not conflict with the organization's own Charity Commission filing.
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PublisherWikimedia Foundation
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John_Ambulance
Source Typeencyclopedia
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