American Red Cross - Groups - American Red Cross Commissioners to Great Britain, France and Italy. On the steps of the London Headquarters, 32 Grosvenor Gardens. In the front row left to right: Maj. William S. Patten, Deputy Commissioner to Great Britain, Maj. Jas. S. Perkins, Head of the American Red Cross in Europe, Col. Robert P. Perkins, commissioner to Italy, Maj. Ralph Preston. Back row: Major Charles M. Bakewell, Maj, Langdon Sec. Marvin of the Harvard Club of New York