Moved by Conflict: Object 6: VAD Uniform

Middle class women, many of whom had never worked before, joined the Voluntary Aid Detachments of the Red Cross. There were 464 women in the Bristol detachments. The VADs, as they were known, helped to organise and care for injured soldiers arriving by train at Temple Meads. They also worked in the various war hospitals set up in Bristol, often filling the places of qualified nurses who were needed at the Front. (ref TB1567.1-9)