Date:1914 - 1918 (c.)
Description:This uniform belonged to Emily ‘Queenie’ Baker (nee Pond) who joined the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD’s) during the First World War. She worked in military hospitals in London, Enfield Cottage Hospital, a temporary hospital in a large house in Gentlemen’s Row in Enfield Town and in another hospital in Edmonton. She nursed wounded Australia, New Zealand Auxiliary Companies (ANZAC’s), who nicknamed her ‘Queenie.’ The VAD’s were a part of the British Red Cross and Order of St. John but were made up of volunteers, mainly those from middle and upper classes. The authorities were reluctant to send civilian women to overseas military hospitals but the increasing shortage of trained nurses opened the door to VAD’s. Women who were over the age of 23 and had three months of hospital experience were allowed to serve.
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Image courtesy of: Mr Charles Baker
Donor ref:NM.2013.58 (22/27407)
Source: Brampton Museum and Art Gallery, Newcastle under Lyme
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