 The following year, the first Cadet division (for those aged between 10 and 17) was formed.In 1923, after the establishment of the Irish Free State, Lumsden wrote to the President of the Council of the Irish Free State to start the process of breaking the Brigade away from the control of the Brigade in London, and from the British Red Cross Society.Moves after 1923 further led to the formation of the Irish Red Cross Society in 1939.