Voluntary Aid Detachment Enlistments

The Red Cross and The Order of St John established the Voluntary Aid Detachments (VADs) in 1914 to assist the nurses in military hospitals.
During World War 1 they were trained in First Aid. During World War 2 they were given more medical training but were not qualified nurses.

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In mid 1916 the British Red Cross called for Australian VAD's to assist in hospitals in Britain. 30 women from different States left Fremantle on 4th October 1916, sailing on the 'Osterley'.

Home State	Name	Date of Birth	Links
Western Australia	Emma Ethel Bowers	10 Aug 1893	BOWERS, Emma Ethel
Western Australia	Lydia Bruce	1882	BRUCE, Lydia
Western Australia	Ida Maud Evans	1893	EVANS, Ida Maud

'Osterley' Incoming Passenger List, November 1916

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In June 1941 the Australian Government called for VADs to volunteer overseas and in October 1941 the first contingent of VADs embarked for the Middle East.

Service Number	Name	Date of Birth	Links
WX17003	Dorothy Leman Temperley	29 Oct 1915
WX17004	Verney Elizabeth Piesse	19 Dec 1911
WX17005	Helen Digby Morrison	21 Mar 1907	sister of WX17015
WX17006	Lilly Clara Pike	31 Jul 1911
WX17007	Doreen Grace Chatel	13 Apr 1916
WX17008	Eileen Maria Fullarton	26 Dec 1907
WX17009	Rona Adelaide Tremain	4 Jun 1920
WX17010	Marjory Newby	1 Apr 1913
WX17011	Stella Murray	18 Feb 1919
WX17012	Isla Rose Saw	9 Feb 1914
WX17013	Barbara English Clarke	29 Jul 1909
WX17014	Phyllis Margaret Shaw	11 Mar 1909
WX17015	Elizabeth Digby Morrison	16 Jan 1909	sister of WX17005
WX17016	Dorothy Joan Richardson	4 Jun 1918
WX17017	Margaret Norah Bolton	28 Feb 1918
WX17018	Betty Dettman	1 Oct 1915
WX17019	Yvonne Marcelline Marie Antoine	24 Mar 1918
WX17020	Laura Jean Routledge	6 Nov 1912
WX17021	Phyllis Noelle Perry	23 Dec 1907
WX17022	Florence Janet Gertrude Evans	19 Jul 1913
WX17023	Jean Robertson	2 Aug 1920
WX17024	Mary Catherine Patterson	4 Nov 1915
WX17025	Elva Irene MacMillan	14 Nov 1913
WX17026	Rita Eva Knight	31 Oct 1916
WX17027
WX17028
WX17029
WX17030
WX17031	Ruth Gwendoline Birch	8 Nov 1908
WX17032	Mary Aitken Brown	14 Jun 1905	BROWN, Mary Aitken - WX17032
WX17033
WX17034
WX17035
WX17036	Jessie Norma Dunbar	21 Jan 1916
WX17037
WX17038
WX17039
WX17040
WX17041	Dorothy May Smith	2 Aug 1919
WX17042	Elizabeth Thornton Young	26 Jun 1917
WX17043	Dorothy Joan Rutherford	14 Jun 1913
WX17044	Dorothy Alma Brown	5 Apr 1908
WX17045	Evelyn Mary Hall	21 Dec 1913
WX17046	Emily Ethel Annie Haskell	20 Feb 1918
WX17047	Dorothy Lilian Crofts	14 Dec 1918
WX17048	Dorothy Cooke	14 Jul 1919
WX17049	Ruth Epsie Nichols	28 Feb 1917
WX17050	Kathleen Beatrice Wells	8 Oct 1919
WX17051	Gertrude Avis Watts	2 Jan 1920
WX17052	Joy Gertrude Davis	10 Nov 1918
WX17053	Marjorie Eileen Dermer	27 Dec 1917
WX17054	Millicent Jean Hardie	23 Apr 1910
WX17055	Cynthia Rolfe Neville	10 Feb 1918
WX17056	Marjorie Edna Chapple	28 Feb 1918
WX17057	Phyllis Kathleen Winter	14 Jul 1914
WX17058	Willa Caterina Conlan	28 Dec 1916
WX17059	Maisie Ellen Abbott Woodward	5 Oct 1908
WX17060	Betty Brennand	15 Dec 1916
WX17061	Constance Emily Lewis	28 Jan 1914
WX17062	Jean Winifred Fraser	2 Mar 1920
WX17063	Mary Critch	22 Mar 1913
WX17064	Dorothy Jean Daly	13 Sep 1918
WX17065	Hilda May Hillary	15 Dec 1916
WX17066	Grace Irene Turvey	28 Mar 1907
WX17067
WX17068	Constance Mary Keenan	23 Mar 1917
WX17069	Ruth Caroline Fleay	4 Mar 1913
WX17070	Dorothy Maud Massey	8 Sep 1910
WX17071	Dorothy May Smith	2 aug 1919
WX17072	Marjorie Constance Nash	22 Oct 1902
WX17073	Norah Clarke O'Toole	23 Jan 1914
WX17074	Alice Ismay Harris	30 Aug 1911
WX17075	Madge Blowfield	21 Nov 1916
WX17076	Gladys Margaret Weller	4 Dec 1906
WX17077	Ruth Marion Windsor Outred	7 Aug 1917
WX17078	Jean Isabel Gordon	14 Oct 1911
WX17079	Hazel Lilian Bell	25 Sep 1913
WX17080
WX17081
WX17082
WX17083	Lyn Draper Pearcy	2 Sep 1905