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Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 61 Send Message	Duncan	Report	6 Oct 2004 22:07
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 61 Send Message	Hi does anybody know what the VDA could be apparrently my grandmother wanted to join but couldn't afford the uniform and went into service instead.
Member Since: January 0001 Posts: 0 Send Message	Unknown	Report	6 Oct 2004 22:12
Member Since: January 0001 Posts: 0 Send Message	Duncan I think you might possibly mean VAD, which was Voluntary Aid Detachments. These were set up in 1910 to supplement existing nursing services. They were organised through the Red Cross & St John. At the beginning of WW1, about 5,300 women volunteered to help hospitals, and another 47,000 enlisted into branches throughout England. They were supposed to be 19 or older. Many middleclass girls joined, including Vera Brittain, who writes of her VAD work in "Testament of Youth". The uniform cost £22! [source: ALL QUIET ON THE HOME FRONT: an oral history of life in Britain during the First World War, by Richard Van Emden & Steve Humphries.] nell
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 61 Send Message	Duncan	Report	7 Oct 2004 10:53
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 61 Send Message	thank you helen i think that may be it it fits in with the dates i have