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The Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire (I.O.D.E.) is a Canadian women's charitable organization. Founded in 1900 during the Boer War in patriotic support of the imperial war effort, it currently provides scholarships, bursaries, book prizes, and awards, as well as pursuing other philanthropic and educational ends. Boer guerrillas during the Second Boer War There were two Boer wars, one from December 16, 1880-March 23, 1881 and the second from October 11, 1899-May 31, 1902 both between the British and the settlers of Dutch, French and German origin (called Boers, Afrikaners or Voortrekkers) in South...
At the foundation of the Order, the "Medal of the Order of the British Empire" was instituted.
The Usher of the Order is known as the Gentleman Usher of the Purple Rod; he does not, unlike his Order of the Garter equivalent (the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod), perform any duties related to the House of Lords.
The chapel of the order is in the far eastern end of the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral, but it holds its great services upstairs in the main body of the cathedral.
The Daughters of the British Empire (DBE) is a charitable, non-profit, non-political, non-sectarian, voluntary American society for women of British or Commonwealth birth or ancestry who are citizens or residents of the USA.
The Society was founded in the USA in the year 1909 as the ImperialOrder, Daughters of the Empire in the USA, and became the National Society, Daughters of the British Empire in the USA, in 1920.
The DBE is affiliated with the ImperialOrder, Daughters of the Empire in Canada (I.O.D.E.), the Victoria League in England, and the General Federation of Women's Clubs in the United States.
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