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TO MARRY AN AMERICAN OFFICER'S SON: A BRIDE-TO-BE

... with the Red Cross Hut which has been established in Grosvenor Gardens, S.W., and, in her r6le of a member of the Voluntary Aid Detachment, has proved an assiduous and valuable helper. ...

Published: Wednesday 31 July 1918
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 111 | Page: 11 | Tags: Photographs 

THEY ALSO SERVE: Who Patrol Our Streets or Direct Their Energies to the Amelioration of the Suffering of Our ..

... chatting with Belgian officers at Alost during the recent bombardment LADY PERROTT Lady Commandant-in-Chief of the Voluntary Aid Detachment, St. John's Ambulance Association, and chief secretary of *he War Emergency Committee Swain ft ...

Published: Wednesday 07 October 1914
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 156 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

FOUR CHARMING PORTRAITS OF INTEREST TO SOCIETY

... TO SOCIETYo THE HON. EMILY BURNS The Hon. Emily Burns is Lord Inverclyde's eldest daughter and is a member of the Voluntary Aid Detachment. She has also been nursing in an (auxiliary hospital since January, 1915. Lord Inverclyde is a director of the Cunard ...

Published: Wednesday 12 September 1917
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 181 | Page: 7 | Tags: Photographs 

HOSPITALS; HOLIDAY FUNDS; AND HENS: WAR-TIME WOMAN

... and belongs to a Voluntary Aid Detachment in Sussex. Mrs. James Marshall Robertson, of Edinburgh, is acting with Lady Margaret Sackville in a duologue at an entertainment to be held to-day (the 1 2th) at Exbury, Southampton, in aid of the Band of Chivalry ...

Published: Wednesday 12 April 1916
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 262 | Page: 3 | Tags: Photographs 

Hop-Pickers in Kent

... have been able to start the season with some of the old hands who never miss September in the gardens, and the aid of school children and voluntary helpers who have come down to assist with the work. Hop-picking is always regarded as a sociable out-of-door ...

PRINCESS MARY to Wed LORD LASCELLES

... are here enjoying a joke together Princess Mary Inspecting the Red Cross During the war Princess Mary organised a Voluntary Aid Detachment, and was also a most assiduous worker in many causes ...

Published: Saturday 26 November 1921
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 379 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

BRITISH RED CROSS WORK in FRANCE: The No. 1 Hospital (The Duchess of Westminster's) at Work: BRITISH RED CROSS ..

... men travelling to the hospitals can be fed. The work is done by the Voluntary Aid Detachment ladies, who have contrived to make their narrow quarters dainty and com fortable with the aid of muslin and chintz and armchairs cut out of old barrels, and to ...

Published: Saturday 22 April 1916
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1123 | Page: 19 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... that the soldier s lot is an easier one than the sailor's. A LADY COMMANDANT-IN-CHIEF LADY PERROTT, WORKER FOR THE VOLUNTARY AID DETACHMENT, ST. JOHN AM3ULANCE ASSOCIATION. Photograph by Sxraine. The wife of the fifth Baronet, Sir Herbert Charles Perrott ...

Published: Wednesday 07 October 1914
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1039 | Page: 18 | Tags: Photographs 

ST. JOHN TO THE RESCUE

... Serving Brothers in 1877. Three years later the first detachments were formed, and the men with first-aid certificates attended football matches and race meetings. Eight years later forty of these detachments were brought together under a Commissioner and were ...

Published: Saturday 08 July 1933
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1889 | Page: 36 | Tags: Photographs 

The DRAKE PAGEANT AND THE FUNERAL OF A JAPANESE OFFICER Killed in the Jutland Battle: THE DRAKE PAGEANT AT YORK ..

... es were given at the Museum Gardens, York, of the pageant play, Drake, by Mr. Louis N. Parker, in aid of the funds of the local Voluntary Aid Detachment hospitals. The play was adapted for open-air production by Mr. Parker, and the lawn facing the Hospitium ...

Published: Saturday 05 August 1916
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 721 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

WEDDING BELLES OF THE 1913 SEASON

... Richmond Women's Voluntary Aid Detachment has just been held at Little- hampton. It was organised by its commandant, Miss Maude Prendergast, a daughter of General Sir Harry Prendergast, G.C.B., V.C. In addition to the Richmond detachment there were units ...

Published: Saturday 26 July 1913
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1932 | Page: 60 | Tags: Photographs 

PICTURES of SCENES in ENGLAND

... The work of carrying out first-aid I repairs to historic edifices in the City of London is now being performed by ex- perl stonemasons. Within the shadow of St. Paul's a huge pile of masonry dumped on a bombed site is being used in the work of preserving ...

Published: Saturday 07 July 1945
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 682 | Page: 29 | Tags: Photographs