VAD

VB left Somerville College at the end of her first academic year to work as 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.

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...