... NEWS IN BRIEF V.A.D. are Eligible for War Gratuities and Other Benefits ATEMBERS of voluntary aid detachments enrolled and called up in the United Kingdom for full-time service with the Array, whether mobile or immobile, will eligible for war gratuity ...

... Voluntary Aid Sir James Grigg, Secretary for War, said arrangements for setting a committee to consider the position of the Voluntary Aid Detachments had been completed. Terms of reference were to consider the scope and method of employment ...

... committee to consider the position of the Voluntary Aid Detachments had just been completed. The agreed terms of reference were “to consider* the scope and method of employment of mobile voluntary aid ...

... and Voluntary Aid Detachment personnel are selected for promotion according to their qualifications, length of service and the recommendations made by their commanding officer. I am not aware of any discontent among members of the Voluntary ...

... A.T.B. NOT DESIRED that the to the proposed a Um IVAD.s. into the LT.& outweigh its advantages, the Committee ea Voluntary Aid Detachments. la a White Paper issued to-day. ...

... FIRST-AID , 1 During the war, said Dr. Jolley.l large numbers of mobile members lof voluntary aid detachments , gave excellent help in naval. I military and air force hospitals, every hospital 'having a proportion of these personnel. Without ...

... Order of St. John have been trained in nursing and first-aid, many work as nursing auxiliaries In Civil Emergency Hospitals and at first-aid posts. Others who have toined Voluntary Aid Detachments help in Service Hospitals. ...

... urgently required for Service hos- perienco of nursing to servo as mcmpitals in the Far East, particularly in hers of Voluntary Aid Detachments. India. The requirements include Apply to the neares* Labcu?. Ex- J.OOO State Registered nurses, and change, addition ...

... V.A.D. RESENT ENROLMENT PROPOSAL REPLY TO MR. LIPSON The concern felt at the proposal to enrol all mobile voluntary aid detachments into the A.T.S. was referred to by Mr. D. L. Lipson, M.P. for Cheltenham, in the House of Commons. He asked the Secretary ...

... Secretary of State for War if he has received the report of the committee which has been considering the future of Voluntary Aid Detachments; and will he state what action he proposes to take the matter. ...

... TRANSFER PLAN Asked in the Commons, to-day, for a guarantee that the suggestion to transfer to the A.T.S. all mobile voluntary aid detachments would not now be carried into effect, Sir James Grigg, War Minister, replied that until be had received a deputation ...

... Lieut.-Colonel Boles. M.P. ror Wells, is to ask the Secretary for War when 'he recommendations of the committee on Voluntary Aid detachments will b? put into Tores, and whether will undertake to give the House Commons opportunity of discus:-;.ng the While ...