What does VAD stand for?

Voluntary Aid Detachment

This definition appears very rarely

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Brittains writing in this volume springs from her experience of conflict as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse.

We will remember them; In the line of fire: British gunners prepare ...

During the First World War, he gave Normanhurst House to be used as a Voluntary Aid Detachment hospital by the Red Cross to care for the wounded.

Great White hope has history... Eating Out The White House: Wooler ...

Also commemorated are four nurses and another four voluntary aid detachment workers who lost their lives in the 1918 influenza epidemic.

Other wartime nurses remembered

The evidence of their friendship is clear in one particular photograph taken in Sydney; Philip is in his Royal Navy uniform and she is wearing her Australian Voluntary Aid Detachment uniform - his hands rest on the back of the chair she is seated on.

PHILIP'S SECRET SHEILA; A new biography reveals this Australian ...

Like many girls eager to do their bit, Phyllis and Edith became VADs, members of the Voluntary Aid Detachment, for the Red Cross.

The girl who could save the world; Fifty million people perished in ...

In 1940, Veronica had recently returned from working as a VAD, a member of the Voluntary Aid Detachment, in Paris (uniform designed by Lanvin).

The real Bond girl who fell for Fitz