Voluntary Aid Detachment
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The Voluntary Aid Detachment was a voluntary unit of civilians providing nursing care for military personnel in the United Kingdom and various other countries in the British Empire. The most important
St John's VAD cloth embroidered insignia (1916)
First World War recruitment poster for Voluntary Aid Detachments
VAD nurse Olive Middleton, back row far right, in 1915 at Gledhow Hall, the estate of her cousin Baroness Airedale
Violet Jessop in her Voluntary Aid Detachment uniform
Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps was the nursing branch of the British Army Medical Services.
Voluntary Aid Detachment
…Although VADs were intimately bound up in the war effort, they were not military nurses, as they were not under the control of the military, unlike the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps, the Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service, and the Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service. The VAD nurses worked in field hospitals…
War memorial in Kilkenny, Ireland, listing Matron Elizabeth Kelly Parker (QAIMNS) among First World War deaths; she died of illness contracted while serving in Egypt in 1916.
A sister of Queen Alexandra's Imperial Nursing Service Reserve (1917)
A letter of recommendation signed by the Matron in Chief for a nurse in the QAIMNS Reserve who served from 1915 to 1919 "in Egypt and At Home" (1925)