POSTCARD: SUBIACO VOLUNTARY AID DIVISION, DRILL HALL, NICHOLSON ROAD

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Overview

The black and white image features the women from the Volunteer Aid Detachment in the Drill Hall, Nicholson Road. The women and three men are arranged in front of the ambulance, some seated, others standing or elevated. The uniform consists of belted shirt dress, buttoned up the front, with a white collar and white breast pocket with a red cross. On the right hand side, the women wear the blue badge of the V.A.D. Fifth Military Division. Most wear a cap, again with the Red Cross. Mrs E.M. Thomas, the founder of the detachment, sits in the middle of the front row. Her uniform is a skirt, shirt and tie and belted jacket and flat brimmed hat. Two other women thus dressed stand immediately behind her. Ambulance driver (male), Dot Crofts, Marjorie Mercer (secretary), Dot Rutherford. Mina Snook, Marie Tacey, Lorna Graham, ---, Molly McIntyre, Drill Instructor (male), ---, May Devlin, Nance Mercer, Ella Venables, Con Considine (quartermaster), Margaret Hudson, Eileen Fullarton (Assistant Commandant), Nancy Williams, Ena Phillips, ---, Evelyn Galbraith, Clare Logue, Sylvia Williams, Bobby Easton, Cath Armstrong, Mary Nicolson (founder member), Monica Walsh, Roma Tremaine (founder member), Edna Bone, Muriel Joachim, Frances Sweetman, Mrs Pendlebury, Mrs Thomas, ---, Bonny Spencer, Grace Ware, Pat Delahunty.

Reverse: Handwritten on the back: 'Many Happy Birthdays, with 503 Subiaco. Best Wishes from E.M. Thomas.'

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-43-1985.128.1

Item type

Documents

Inscriptions and markings

W.A. Newspapers Ltd

Keywords

Clubs

Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD)

Red Cross