Voluntary Aid Detachments (VADs) County branches of the Red Cross had their own groups of volunteers called Voluntary Aid Detachments (often abbreviated to VAD). Voluntary Aid Detachment members themselves came to be known simply as ‘VADs’. Made up of men and women, the VADs carried out a range of voluntary positions including nursing, transport duties, and the organisation of rest stations, working parties and auxiliary hospitals. ============ It has been announced the database is now complete <http://www.redcross.org.uk/About-us/Who-we-are/History-and-origin/First-World-War/Volunteers-during-WW1> I have a known VAD nurse who sadly died just at the start of the war, she does not appear in the database but to my surprise I found several others, male and female who I was not expecting to find So well worth a check to see if any of yours are listed there It can be searched by forename, surname, location or hospital name or role/duty OR any of the above I found several by using a location and scrolling through the results A very useful database indeed NB plenty of hits for keywords, Scotland, Lanarkshire, Glasgow etc -- Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK)