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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 

V.A.D.: Voluntary Aid Detachment

... V.A.D. Voluntary Aid Detachment Nursing auxiliar ies from the Red Cross and St. John's Ambu lance work together in the United Women's Volun tary Aid Detach ments popularly known as the V.A.D.s. They must have spent at least forty hours ...

Published: Saturday 23 November 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 122 | Page: 24 | Tags: Photographs 

The Social Round: Clarion Call from Chelsea

... those under orders for service overseas, and by weddings and storks. There are twenty-one Red Cross detachments in Chelsea, including five non-stop first aid posts, all of which are busy rehearsing and drilling for the Red Cross annual church parade in which ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3165 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

The Social Round: The War and the Intelligentsia

... recent meeting of Northampton W.V.S. Hollow ay The Dowager Marchioness of Reading, the National Chairman of the Women's Voluntary Services is on the left and with her is Lady Hillingdon, D.B.E., wife of Lord Hillingdon, now acting as Master of his old ...

Published: Wednesday 24 April 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3283 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs