... V.A.D. INSPECTION IN PRESTON The annual inspection by the War Office of the West Lancashire Voluntary Aid Detachments was held in Preston Public Hall on Saturday afternoon. Col. B. Johnson, the Deputy Director of Medical Services for the Western Command ...

... BRITISH RED CROSS SOCIETY Chester Y.A.D. Inspection. The smartness and effirtetwy of the Voluntary Aid Detachments of the British Red Cross Si:witty, Chester City Division, were elderly to be seen on Wednesday afternoon, when the annual inspection took ...

... BIRK ENNEAD FINALISTS IN RED CROSS CONTEST FOR THE STANLEY SHIELD The competition among voluntary aid detachments of the British Red Cross Society for the Stanley Shield was completed to-day at the Wharncliffe Rooms, London. Among the finalists was a ...

... Field Day of Voluntary 'Aid Detachments Cumberland Voluntary Aid Detachments had field day at Lowther Castle yesterday on the invitation of the Countess Lonsdale, who is county president of the British Red ...

... Street, Rochdale. VOLUNTARY AID DETACHMENTS To the Editor of the Rochdale Observer Sir, —The Voluntary Aid Detachments are now proving their value as auxiliaries to the Medical Services of the Crown, and ...

... RED CROSS CATHEDRAL SERVICE The Voluntary Aid Detachments of the British Red Cross Society will hold their annual church parade to the Cathedral on Sunday. All units will assemble in the St. John's Gardens, to march off at two o'clock by way of Lime-street ...

... Edith Parker on Da rtf 3rd Heath, stated yesterday that thcie would be no appeal. Princess M«rv, Commandant-in-Chicf Voluntary Aid Detachments, paid a surprise visit yesterday to the British Empire Red Cross Conference at St. James's Palace. ...

... Jerusalem, and took an energetic part in caring foe the wounded during the Great War. She founded hospital., and formed voluntary aid detachments. One of her activities embraced the restoration of Wenlock Abbey ruins, to make them safe for tourists. Her home ...

... IN ROCHDALE An Efficient Display The annual inspection of the East Lancashire Voluntary Aid Detachments, comprising units from Rochdale, Castleton, Norden, Manchester and twenty-three other towns in the area, was held at the Territorial Drill Hall, Baron ...

... RED CROSS FLAG DAY The voluntary aid detachments of the British Red Cross Society are holding their annual flag day collection on Saturday. Although our nurses and men give their services freely and voluntarily, considerable expense is incurred in pro ...

... VOLUNTARY AID WORK took prominent part in tho organisation f various voluntary aid detachments tho war. When war broke out also directed her energies to the Auxiliary Military Hospital Moor Park, and was president the hospital until ...

... National Society for Aid to the Sick and Wounded in War which was later abbreviated to the National Aid Society. In 1905, one year after the Central British Red Cross Council was formed, that council joined hands with the National Aid Society under one title ...