After a brief training period at a civilian hospital, FS
was posted from London to Udine in Italy as a VAD
nurse.
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Material Conditions of Writing
Enid Bagnold
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...
Employer
Monica Dickens
Quite early in 1940 (after a spell as a writer and another collecting scrap iron for armaments) MD
joined the Red Cross
as a VAD (that is, a Voluntary Aid Detachment
volunteer nurse), then became...