VAD

EB joined the Red Cross after the First World War began, and became a VAD .

EB published her first book, A Diary Without Dates, an account of her work as a VAD at the Royal Herbert Hospital —a job from which she was dismissed on the book's publication.

The book reads more like a novel than a diary. Its details about EB 's work as a VAD include sometimes quite graphic descriptions of the war injuries sustained by the men. One has no...