Voluntary Aid Detachment

British  

noun

1.  VAD.  (in World War I) an organization of British women volunteers who assisted in military hospitals and ambulance duties

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Example Sentences

Sisters of the V.A.D.—Voluntary Aid Detachment—came in each afternoon to relieve the regular nursing sisters.

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Britain's Red Cross nurses�the Voluntary Aid Detachment�naturally have a soft spot in the Dowager Queen's heart.

From Time Magazine Archive

Never shall I forget the experience—the whole staff of doctors gave a hand, together with a clergyman, the Rev. Mr. Hall, of St. John's Voluntary Aid Detachment.

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The company then resolved itself into a Voluntary Aid Detachment.

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One may be pardoned for saying that during the previous three days one had scarcely begun to realise the war, but I was recalled by telegram from Northamptonshire to the headquarters of my Voluntary Aid Detachment in Kent, and spent a night in town en route, to get uniform, etc.

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