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WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO: THE ORGANISATIONS REPRESENTED BY THESE UNIFORMED WOMEN, for so gallantly going to it to ..

... AUXILIARY FIRE SERVICE. J THE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL AUXILIARY AMBULANCE CORPS. THE WOMEN'S VOLUNTARY SERVICE. THE RED CROSS SOCIETY and VOLUNTARY AID DETACHMENTS. THE ST. JOHN AMBULANCE BRIGADE. THE members of the MECHANISED TRANSPORT CORPS have been on ...

Published: Wednesday 18 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 163 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WOMAN-ABOUT-TOWN: Trains Curtailed

... their sub-divisions, women are undergoing Red Cross training to give first aid to the injured, to nurse at home or in the field, to act in concert in voluntary aid detachments. They are working steadily, quietly, and perseveringly, and learning other ...

Published: Wednesday 28 February 1912
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1030 | Page: 33 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WOMAN-ABOUT-TOWN: Suggestions

... military, and neat and alert. In any case, they will be very much in the movement V A D 'I he poor members of the Voluntary Aid Detachments are coming in for very adverse criticism from heads of professional nursing organisations. Yet, I have asked several ...

Published: Wednesday 24 February 1915
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1107 | Page: 26 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WOMAN ABOUT TOWN: Reassured

... of in a specially interesting way. A crying want in the British Red Cross Society is a hospital where members of Voluntary Aid Detachments can gain practical experience. There are many thousands of them fully qualified theoretically, with no practical ...

Published: Wednesday 21 October 1914
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1241 | Page: 30 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WOMAN ABOUT TOWN

... martial. The long blue coats with numerals on the shoulders and the symbol on the left side, worn by members of Voluntary Aid Detachments, with dark-blue felt hats having the badge in front, are quite un noticed in the streets, so accus tomed to them ...

Published: Wednesday 31 March 1915
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1337 | Page: 26 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WOMAN ABOUT TOWN: A Versatile Duchess

... to the poor over-lettered Times, attempting to refute this idea, and in it takes occasion to refer to members of Voluntary Aid Detachments, who, he says, would do better if they were not photographed so often. I have seen only one photo graph of them taken ...

Published: Wednesday 23 December 1914
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1320 | Page: 26 | Tags: Photographs 

Graphic

... Treichmann, of the Royal Garrison Artillery. Miss George is well known as an energetic war-worker and nurse in the Voluntary Aid Detachment. She is a daughter of Mr. William George, Town Clerk of Invergordon, Ross-shire, and sister to Viscountess Uffington ...

Published: Wednesday 24 April 1918
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 97 | Page: 1 | Tags: Photographs 

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 

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 

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 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... Franco-German War. At twenty-five years of age he signed his voluntary enlist ment in the French army before one of Napoleon the Third's Prefects, and wrote in his diary I I to come to the aid, in however small a measure, of the murderer of my country 1 ...

Published: Wednesday 08 March 1911
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1337 | Page: 20 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK OF THE WEEK

... CIVIL SERVICE R.V.), WHO TAKES THE PLACE. OF SIR H.VINCENT. Photo by Gregory, Strand. LORD VALENTIA, WHO WILL COMMAND THE DETACHMENT OF THE OXFORDSHIRE YEOMANRY IN SOUTH AFRICA. Photo by Bassano, Old Bond Street, If. J MAJOR-GENERAL FRENCH. WHO. WITH HIS ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 8614 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs