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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“Nelson’s famous signal before the Battle of Trafalgar was not: “England expects that every man will be a hero.” It said: “England expects that every man will do his duty.” In 1805 that was enough. It should still be.”
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“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behaviour, attire, grace, learning and all their words aimeth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”
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