Voluntary Aid Detachment - Famous VAD Nurses

Famous VAD Nurses

Famous VAD nurses include:

  • Mary Borden, novelist
  • Vera Brittain, author of the best-selling 1933 memoir Testament of Youth, recounting her experiences during World War I
  • Agatha Christie who briefly details her VAD experiences in her posthumously published Autobiography
  • Amelia Earhart, aviation pioneer
  • Hattie Jacques, comedy actress
  • Violet Jessop trained as a VAD nurse after the outbreak of World War I. She had been a stewardess aboard the RMS Titanic when it sank in 1912 and was also aboard the hospital ship HMHS Britannic (the Titanic's sister ship) as a British Red Cross nurse aboard when it sank in 1916.
  • Naomi Mitchison, writer
  • May Wedderburn Cannan, poet
  • Anna Zinkeisen, painter and illlustrator
  • Doris Zinkeisen, painter, commercial artist and theatrical designer

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