VAD NURSES
1944B & W photo of eight Voluntary Aid Detachment nurses associated with Toodyay.
There are five in the front row and three in the back row, who have a darker uniform. The five at the front have an embossed cross on the left pocket.
They have been identified as:
Back row left to right S.Waller, M Hayles, D Gadson;
Front row Left to right - R Y Wroth, D Sanderson, A Whitfield, D Hasson, S Phillips.
In 2004, M Hayles was now Mavis Rowles, Y Wroth was now Yvonne Cornish, and A Whitfield who had become Anita Thurman was now deceased.
Associated material in the Shire of Toodyay heritage collections - VAD badge accessioned as 2010.2 & VAD apron accessioned as 2003.28.
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The VAD nurses were established in the First World War by the Red Cross and the Order of St John. Initially they served only in Australia, supporting military nursing staff in such roles as orderlies, fundraisers and the nursing of soldiers crippled by the war. By the Second World War, the group's numbers and duties were expanded to include their involvement overseas as ambulance drivers, hospital ship nurses and in the blood banks. Although not fully qualified nurses, these women played an important role in keeping the hospitals running and rehabilitating soldiers. By 1967 the group was renamed the Voluntary Aid Service Corp
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