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    The Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) was a voluntary unit of civilians providing nursing care for military personnel in the United Kingdom and various other...
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  • Voluntary Aid Detachment Mabel Katie Barr-Stevens, Voluntary Aid Detachment Nurse, B.R.C.S. Grizel Gillespie Bayley, Nurse, Voluntary Aid Detachment Helen...
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    the Western Front in the First World War, she worked with the Voluntary Aid Detachment and in the chemist dispensary, giving her a working background...
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    Mary Brittain (29 December 1893 – 29 March 1970) was an English Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) nurse, writer, feminist, socialist and pacifist. Her best-selling...
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    Joint War Committee, member of the Voluntary Aid Detachment Advisory Committee and of the Voluntary Aid Detachment Selection Board, appointed GBE in the...
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  • Cross Theodora Marsh, Voluntary Aid Detachment Hilda Martin, Voluntary Aid Detachment Emma Osborne Masters, Voluntary Aid Detachment Sadie Charlotte. McDonald...
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  • Adela Beausire, Assistant Nurse, Voluntary Aid Detachment Emily Margaret Vivian Berry, Nurse, Voluntary Aid Detachment Charlotte Irene Black, Acting Sister...
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    Christie involved herself in the war effort as a member of the Voluntary Aid Detachment of the British Red Cross. From October 1914 to May 1915, then from...
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  • year. During World War II Lady Ursula worked as a nurse with the Voluntary Aid Detachment before being appointed to a managerial position over 2,000 women...
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    World War she served with the British Red Cross Society in the Voluntary Aid Detachment and served as a cook on the Western Front. She was awarded the...
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    patron of the arts. During the First World War, she served as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse. She was the wife of Raymond Asquith and the daughter-in-law...
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  • the First World War, as a conscientious objector, he joined the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD). Unwin died on 13 October 1968 and was honoured with a blue...
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  • during the 1910s. Before starting the program, Graham worked at the Voluntary Aid Detachment during World War I. She also created courses for the McGill University...
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  • The Voluntary Service Detachments were offshoots of the Australian Red Cross Society's South Australian and Western Australian divisions formed shortly...
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    Hall. During the First World War, the house was converted into a Voluntary Aid Detachment hospital run by the Red Cross and the newly married Olive worked...
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    nursing and military administrator. She led the British Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachment force during the First World War, and served as the inaugural Director...
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  • War is a 1940 American war film about the nurses of the British Voluntary Aid Detachment during the Battle of France. Directed by John H. Auer and starring...
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    Sophia Duleep Singh, working with the latter for the Red Cross as Voluntary Aid Detachment members and fundraising for Indian soldiers during the First World...
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    arts and crafts business in Launceston and was involved in the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) Canteen Services during World War II. She was elected to...
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    nurse's aide from the Red Cross, Earhart began working with the Voluntary Aid Detachment at Spadina Military Hospital, where her duties included food preparation...
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  • chemotherapy regimen used for multiple myeloma Voluntary assisted dying Voluntary Aid Detachment, a voluntary organisation providing field nursing services...
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  • several children of a conservative archdeacon, and served in the Voluntary Aid Detachment during the Great War. With the Great War over, jobs are scarce...
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    use as a Voluntary Aid Detachment hospital. The hospital was managed by the Headingley Company of the St John Ambulance Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD)....
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  • her vacations worked at a convalescent home in Inverness as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse. A youthful romance ended with her soldier friend's death...
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    Browning monologue, unlike a soliloquy, the meaning is not what the speaker voluntarily reveals but what he inadvertently gives away, usually while rationalising...
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    1920 – 29 April 2024) was a British medical artist and Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse who worked at the Queen Victoria Hospital, England, during...
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  • chief officer. In the Voluntary Aid Organisation in World War I, the chief officer of a military hospital or voluntary aid detachment (VAD), whether male...
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    nurse and community worker. She became a magistrate and led a Voluntary Aid Detachment during WWII. Elliott was born in Hobart in Tasmania. By 1911 she...
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    volunteer female force. She volunteered as a British Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse, serving at an auxiliary military hospital in Isleworth from...
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  • their social circle. The book's main subject is Vera's work as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse, nursing wounded soldiers in London, Malta and at Etaples...
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