Voluntary Aid Detachment Personnel

VAD nurses at Gledhow Hall 1915

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This page is dedicated to the stories of Voluntary Aid Detachment personnel. We began collecting the stories in order to give our Forgotten Women Friday volunteers the chance to research a forgotten women at any time, in what has become a perpetual Forgotten Women Friday. You can find details of all those who were part of the Voluntary Aid Detachment on the excelled Red Cross website. You can access the stories by clicking on the women's names below. For more information about tracing those associated with the VAD see the Historical Musings blog. There are more stories of VAD workers on the Remembering British Women in World War 1 Facebook page.

If you have further information about any of the women whose stories are told here, please do get in touch. The information in these stories is accurate to the best of our knowledge, given the sources that were available to us at the time of writing. We cannot be held responsible for any errors of fact that may have inadvertently included. Please inform us if you believe that any errors have been made. Where the women have descendants, we have tried to contact them to get permission to tell their ancestor's stories. This has not always been possible. If we have told a story of your ancestors and you would rather we removed it, please do contact us.

Emily Bauer 1882-1956, from Shipley, Yorkshire – No Descendants, Women at War, VAD Personnel. 2 minute read.

May Churchill Clapton 1894-1972, from Wandsworth, Surrey – No Descendants, Women at War, VAD Personnel. 3 minute read.

Rhoda Constance Clothier, later Rhoda Constance Hinde 1891-1965, from Dalkey, Ireland and Hilda Josephine Clothier, later Hilda Josephine Hutchinson 1897-1976, from Cardiff, Wales -Activism, Women at War, , VAD Personnel, The Mount School. 25 minute read.

Dorothy Furnace, later Dorothy Storey 1895-1967 and Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Furnace, later Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Wilson 1897-1987, from Keswick, Cumberland - No Descendants, Women at War, Women at Work, VAD Personnel. 6 minute read.

Edith Eileen Godson 1894-1975, from Heckington, Lincolnshire – No Descendants, Women at War, Women at Work, VAD Personnel. 2 minute read.

Isabella Ridgeway Lee, later Isabella Ridgeway Crawshaw 1884-1946, from Earlsheaton, Yorkshire – Women at War, VAD Personnel, The Mount School. 2 minute read.

Margot Lilian Lee-Potter, later Margot Lilian Wild 1896-1980, from Batley, Yorkshire - Women at War, VAD Personnel. 2 minute read.

Muriel Osmond Mesney c.1893-1928, from Sticklepath, Devon, born in Sarawak, Borneo - No Descendants, Women at War, VAD Personnel. 8 minute read.

Alice Mabel Paget-Tomlinson, aka Mabel Paget-Tomlinson 1876-1953, from Great Crosby, Lancashire – No Descendants, Women at War, VAD Personnel. 4 minute read.

Elizabeth Poskitt 1885-1954, from Pontefract, Yorkshire – Disability, No Descendants, Women at War, VAD Personnel. 3 minute read.

Elsie Robinson 1888-1980, from Northwich, Cheshire – No Descendants, Women at War, Women at Work, Cheshire County Training College, VAD Personnel. 4 minute read.

Beatrice Amy Shepherd, later Beatrice Amy Prickman 1872-1964, from Newton Arloch, Cumberland - No Descendants, Women at War, VAD Personnel. 9 minute read.

Dorothy Turner, later Dorothy Butler 1894-1980, from Batley, Yorkshire - Women at War, VAD Personnel. 2 minute read.

Amy Berta Minto Wilson 1883-1978 and Alice Victoria Minto Wilson 1885-1964, from Walthamstow, Essex – No Descendants, Women at Work, VAD Personnel, The Mount School. 3 minute read.