Red Cross Fair 2002

งานกาชาด 2545

2002/2545-02-17

To commemorate the Thai Red Cross Fair 2002

2002/3

4 Baht

7 Baht

4 Baht

Unused stamp

27 x 45 mm

1,000,000 pieces

Thai British Security Printing Public Company Limited, Thailand

The Phra Phanwassah Building at today's Somdet Phra Boromma Racha Thewih Na Sri Racha (สมเด็จพระบรมราชเทวี ณ ศรีราชา) Hospital in Chonburi Province, which is named after Queen Sawang Watthana, a consort of King Chulalongkorn, who was also known as Phra Phanwassah Ayyikah Chao (พระพันวัสสาอัยยิกาเจ้า). In the background is the Queen's Housing Resort (fig.), built on stilts in the sea, and known in Thai as Reuan Nai Thalae (เรือนในทะเล), i.e. ‘Dwelling in the Sea’. The loss of several of her children in a short period of time was so devastating to the Queen and her grief was so intense, that her health began to deteriorate. Hence, the King permitted her to move away from the capital and stay at the seaside town of Sri Racha, in order to recuperate. Here, she soon realised the need for hospitals and doctors, and consequently had the hospital built, of which construction was finished in 1902.

Thai Red Cross Society, Chao, Somdet, Phra, Borom, Racha, Chonburi, Sawang Watthana, Sri Savarindira, Chulalongkorn, Rama V, Siriraj Hospital.