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The story of British V.A.D. work in the great war / by Thekla Bowser.

A V.A.D. in France / by Olive Dent with illustrations by R.M. Savage and others.

Tensions, tribulations and triumphs of Voluntary Aid Detachment nurses (V.A.Ds) in World War I / by Victoria L. Stanley.

A V.A.D. in France.

Scheme for the organization of voluntary aid in England and Wales, December 1910.

Once upon a ward. V.A.D.s' own stories and pictures of service at home and overseas 1939-1946 / [compiled by D.Boys].

<p>Engrossing documentary about the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) nurses of the First World War.  The programme centres around the oral reminiscences of former nurses of this era who talk about their wartime work in hospitals in Britain, France and Belguim.  The VADs were unpaid so were mostly recruited from the middle and upper classes, meaning a sharp contrast between their (often sheltered) home lives and their work duties.  Among the subjects discussed are gangrene (including use of maggots to clear gangrenous flesh), amputation, the dressing of wounds, crowded and primitive conditions of casualty clearing stations a few miles from the Front, driving ambulances between stations, supporting patients suffering from shell-shock or war neuroses and creating a more friendly and light-hearted atmosphere than some matrons decreed.  Their memories are well-illustrated by archive footage and photographs.  The programme concludes that the ladies of the VAD made an immeasurable contribution to the recovery of a generation of young men blighted by the physical and mental carnage of the First World War.</p>

1 video cassette (VHS) (60 min.) : sound, color, PAL

The roses of no man's land.

Scheme for the organization of voluntary aid in Scotland, October 1911.

<p>The most comprehensive, single-volume record of the Red Cross and its commitment in the First World War. Members of the British Red Cross and the Order of St John were organised into Voluntary Aid Detachments (the term VAD later came to be used for an individual member as well as a detachment). All members were trained in first aid and others trained in nursing, cookery and hygiene and sanitation. Throughout the war VADs worked in hospitals, convalescent homes, rest stations, packing centres, medical supply depots and work parties. The Joint War Committee organised the volunteers alongside technical and professional staff. The Committee also supplied the machinery and mechanisms to provide these services in Britain and in the conflict areas of Europe, the Middle East, Russia and East Africa. The Joint War Committee was the first to supply motorised ambulances to the battlefields.</p>

823 pages : illustrations (part folded) ; 33 cm

Reports by the Joint War Committee and the Joint War Finance Committee of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in England on voluntary aid rendered to the sick and wounded at home and abroad and to British prisoners of war, 1914-1919, with appendices.

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The story of British V.A.D. work in the great war / by Thekla Bowser.

A V.A.D. in France / by Olive Dent with illustrations by R.M. Savage and others.

Tensions, tribulations and triumphs of Voluntary Aid Detachment nurses (V.A.Ds) in World War I / by Victoria L. Stanley.

A V.A.D. in France.

Scheme for the organization of voluntary aid in England and Wales, December 1910.

Once upon a ward. V.A.D.s' own stories and pictures of service at home and overseas 1939-1946 / [compiled by D.Boys].

The roses of no man's land.

Scheme for the organization of voluntary aid in Scotland, October 1911.

Reports by the Joint War Committee and the Joint War Finance Committee of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in England on voluntary aid rendered to the sick and wounded at home and abroad and to British prisoners of war, 1914-1919, with appendices.

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The story of British V.A.D. work in the great war / by Thekla Bowser.

A V.A.D. in France / by Olive Dent with illustrations by R.M. Savage and others.

Tensions, tribulations and triumphs of Voluntary Aid Detachment nurses (V.A.Ds) in World War I / by Victoria L. Stanley.

A V.A.D. in France.

Scheme for the organization of voluntary aid in England and Wales, December 1910.

Once upon a ward. V.A.D.s' own stories and pictures of service at home and overseas 1939-1946 / [compiled by D.Boys].

The roses of no man's land.

Scheme for the organization of voluntary aid in Scotland, October 1911.

Reports by the Joint War Committee and the Joint War Finance Committee of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in England on voluntary aid rendered to the sick and wounded at home and abroad and to British prisoners of war, 1914-1919, with appendices.

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