Editing Blood chit (section)

===British Armed Forces===
[[File:RAF Blood Chit 1991.jpg|thumb|Blood chit issued to RAF Aircrew during the Gulf War 1991]]
Examples of blood chits issued to British RAF personnel in India in the 1940s are printed on thin sheets of silk cloth measuring 20 by 11½ inches (about 50 x 30&nbsp;cm);  they have the Union flag printed at the top left, and the following text in English and French alongside it:

{{quote|<poem>Dear Friend,
I am an Allied fighter. I did not come here to do any harm to you who are my friends.  I only want to do harm to the Japanese and chase them away from this country as quickly as possible.
If you will assist me, my Government will sufficiently reward you when the Japanese are driven away.</poem>}}

The main area of the document is printed in three columns with the same text in 15 Asian languages, including Malay, Burmese, Tamil, Thai and Bengali.

Such blood chits or goolie chits were issued to Royal Air Force pilots during the [[Gulf War]]. It identifies the bearer as friendly and is issued with gold sovereigns as an incentive.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.raf.mod.uk/what-we-do/centre-for-air-and-space-power-studies/documents1/air-power-review-vol-19-no-2-first-gulf-war-25th-anniversary-special/ |title=Reality of War Tornado GR1 JP233 Delivery (17 Jan 1991) 'Cluck cluck... Gibber, gibber… My old man... Sa mushroom' An Airman's Perspective on the Reality of War |last=Walters |first=Andy |date=1 July 2016 |website=raf.mod.uk |publisher=Royal Air Force |access-date=13 March 2022 |quote=A goolie chit was originally known as a blood chit. It is a notice carried by military personnel and addressed to any civilians who may come across an armed-services member – such as a shot-down pilot – in difficulties. As well as identifying the force to which the bearer belongs as friendly, the notice displays a message requesting that the service member be rendered every assistance. The gold sovereigns were intended as an added ’incentive’ to anyone assisting the aircrew.}}</ref> [[Peter Ratcliffe]] recounted that it was issued to [[Special Air Service]] troopers prior to deployment. The gold sovereigns had to be returned unless troopers could prove they were legitimately used.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ratcliffe |first=Peter |author-link= |date=1 July 2003 |title=Eye of the Storm: Twenty-five Years in Action with the SAS |url= |location= |publisher=Michael O'Mara; New Ed edition |page=244 |isbn=978-1843170525}}</ref> [[Peter de la Billière]] also recounted that all RAF aircrew were issued with "£800 in gold, to facilitate escape in case of trouble, and also a chit written in Arabic which promised that Her Majesty’s Government would pay the sum of £5000 to anyone who returned an airman intact to the Allies."<ref>{{cite book |last=de la Billière |first=Peter |author-link= |date= 1992|title=Storm command : a personal account of the Gulf War |url=https://archive.org/details/stormcommandpers00dela |location= |publisher=HarperCollins |page=204 |isbn=978-0006387497}}</ref> Former [[Special Air Service]] Sergeant [[Chris Ryan]] also received the same type of chit and gave it to a Syrian driver during his escape from Iraq.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ryan |first=Chris |author-link= |date=2010 |title=The one that got away |url=https://archive.org/details/onethatgotaway0000ryan_k7e8/page/216/mode/2up?q=english |location= |publisher=London: Red Fox |page=216 |isbn=9781849413466}}</ref>