VAD Countenance

[Home Guard]

In my daily search for items in my area of interest I ran across this picture and just wanted to share the feeling and thought I got as a I saw it. If I was a wounded soldier, the expression these ladies reflect would indeed make me feel better.

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The past two years for us have been very trying with several issues with cancer, etc., and I have to say that in EVERY instance the nurses were truly angels!

Terry

[Sonofacqms]

Terry,
A very interesting photo, the nurse in the front row who has corporals stripes has four medals, one looks like a Mons or 1914-15 star with the others possibly French or Belgian medals, these are not clear on the photo.

Thanks for sharing.

Rob

[leigh kitchen]

The lady 4th from the left, rear row is wearing the white ribboned WWI British Red Cross medal, instituted in 1921, awarded to volunteers for working 1,000 hours or 83 individual 12-hour shifts and who weren't awarded the BWM.

The lady wearing the chevrons - looks like a 1914-15 Star rather than a 1914 Star I think, with a BWM and a VM with MID emblem on the ribbon.

[Home Guard]

It is a very interesting photo. I believe they are all BRCS VADs due to the red cross on their apron, and the style of their head scarf, which the latter was a unique characteristic of the VAD. The BRCS VAD wore a pale blue dress and had a cross on their apron, while a St. John's VAD wore a gray dress and a plain apron. Both wore the same style head scarf, although the style of it changed to that in the picture during the war. The difference between a BRCS and a St John's VAD being where they got their nursing training.

I see lots of BRCS medals, and suspect the lady in the center with all of the medals is probably the Matron. The smaller red cross medal looks to be a county badge of the BRCS.

The three ladies in uniform are wearing the BRCS cap badge.

Terry