... VOLUNTARY AID: LADY HOLLINS' APPEAL. [To THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY POST.] SIR,—AII who read the newspapers to-day - must realise that considerable numbers of sick and wounded noldiers and sailors aro now being landed in this country, The Voluntary Aid ...

... Services of the Western Command, congratulating the nurses at the conclusion of his inspection of the West Lancashire Voluntary Aid Detachments (St John Ambulance Brigade) the Public Hall, Preston, on Saturday after* noon. In appealing for more mobile members ...

... of two voluntary aid detachments. Their first object was form at least one detachment at Preston and in the Chorley and Blackpool district. The detachments would b© of two classes, consisting respectively of men and women. Th© men’t ...

... that a divisional committee, as distinct from the present committee, should be elected for the administration of Voluntary Aid Detachments, A committee of commandants had formerly done useful work, he said, but it had been dissolved by the management committee ...

... VOLUNTARY AID DETACHMENT FOR ASHTON. A meeting to consider inauguration of scheme for establishing Voluntary Aid Detachment held in Council Chamber, Aabton-iD-MakcrpeKi, Saturday afternoon Mary Lady Gerard ...

... Society. Before the outbreak war the Voluntary Aid Detachments of the British Red Cross Society had a total of about 60,000 members, men and women, who have been in regular training. In time of war the detachments are mobilised aii integral part of the ...

... REGISTRATION OF V.A.D. UNITS. The following Voluntary Aid Detachments (Women’s) have been registered the War Office: No. 90 West Lancs., Commandant, Miss H. M. Smith, and No. 290 West Lancs., Commandant, Miss M. Fairhrother, both organised by the Order ...

... PRESTON AID DETACHMENTS Of St. John Ambulance Brigade. Mr. James Bare, Liverpool, Director the Voluntary Aid Ilctaohmente ol the Weft Lancashiro AsGOciation, Territorial Forces, inspected the 74th and 75th John Ambulance Companies the ...

... Valentine 'u I*rof. K. J. Harvey Gibson, ’r,, Voluntary Aid Detachments, ‘Ti'. lr ° T - Assocliit,on ■ and Mr. J. ■ * f 1 *■' Council representative on It? ash!re Association. ( ■„,, °* the Womenn Detachment, of ■ *C. * on parade* including Mrs. ■ a, '* ...

... Treasurer. 20, Gordon-square, W.C. 1. Colonel Sir William Coates, who has been county controller of East Lancashire Voluntary Aid Detachments since their reconstitution in 1923, has now relinquished this appointment in favour of Colonel J. Howson Bay. ...

... NEEDED AT ONCE. Prestonlans Must Raise £l,OOO. TO EQUIP THE VOLUNTARY AID DETACHMENTS. Will You Do Your Share? There appears be some danger of Ptestonians, in their real on behalf the Prince Wales’ Fund-overlooking the equally insistent calls of other ...

... the various bodies as they arrived. At one o'clock the brigade of 3,000 nurses and 5,000 members of the St. John Voluntary Aid detachments wai inspected by the Chief Commissioner, Colonel Sir James Clark, and afterwards moved across to the parade ground ...