OPINION: Yesterday Today with Alan McRae

July 10 2017 - 5:30am
HERE TO HELP: Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) women posing for the photographer in Machattie Park in August 1918. The women did the job at their own expense.
HERE TO HELP: Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) women posing for the photographer in Machattie Park in August 1918. The women did the job at their own expense.

This group of Voluntary Aid Detachment women are posing for the photographer in Machattie Park in August 1918 during World War One. The group obviously brought in folding chairs which allowed the two front rows to sit. The second row stood on the ground and the back row stood on the chairs.

The Voluntary Aid Detachments, commonly known as the VADs, was a voluntary organisation of women which had been formed originally by the British Red Cross Society in 1914.

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