Voluntary Aid Detachment and First Aid Nursing Yeomanry
Nurses
VAD: Voluntary Aid Detachment
FANY: First Aid Nursing Yeomanry Both of these nursing organizations played a critical role in WW1 nursing. The VADs were unpaid volunteers (and therefore usually from a higher social class where money was not an issue) who were given basic medical training. These women, while they could not typically give injections, could comfort and provide basic medical treatment to wounded soldiers. The role of a FANY nurse was less glamorous. Their jobs included scrubbing and disinfecting rooms in which wounded soldiers were to be treated, disposing of bodies, organizing baths for front line soldiers, driving (sometimes makeshift) ambulances, and running soup kitchens for the soldiers. Nurses who served could be found behind the front lines of battle, in Army hospitals, on troop trains and transport ships, and anywhere else they were needed. Several nurses were awarded distinguished honors by the military for their services. Many nurses were wounded in WW1 and some died and were buried overseas.
Nurses
VAD: Voluntary Aid Detachment
FANY: First Aid Nursing Yeomanry Both of these nursing organizations played a critical role in WW1 nursing. The VADs were unpaid volunteers (and therefore usually from a higher social class where money was not an issue) who were given basic medical training. These women, while they could not typically give injections, could comfort and provide basic medical treatment to wounded soldiers. The role of a FANY nurse was less glamorous. Their jobs included scrubbing and disinfecting rooms in which wounded soldiers were to be treated, disposing of bodies, organizing baths for front line soldiers, driving (sometimes makeshift) ambulances, and running soup kitchens for the soldiers. Nurses who served could be found behind the front lines of battle, in Army hospitals, on troop trains and transport ships, and anywhere else they were needed. Several nurses
VAD: Voluntary Aid Detachment
FANY: First Aid Nursing Yeomanry Both of these nursing organizations played a critical role in WW1 nursing. The VADs were unpaid volunteers (and therefore usually from a higher social class where money was not an issue) who were given basic medical training. These women, while they could not typically give injections, could comfort and provide basic medical treatment to wounded soldiers. The role of a FANY nurse was less glamorous. Their jobs included scrubbing and disinfecting rooms in which wounded soldiers were to be treated, disposing of bodies, organizing baths for front line soldiers, driving (sometimes makeshift) ambulances, and running soup kitchens for the soldiers. Nurses who served could be found behind the front lines of battle, in Army hospitals, on troop trains and transport ships, and anywhere else they were needed. Several nurses were awarded distinguished honors by the military for their services. Many nurses were wounded in WW1 and some died and were buried overseas.
Nurses
VAD: Voluntary Aid Detachment
FANY: First Aid Nursing Yeomanry Both of these nursing organizations played a critical role in WW1 nursing. The VADs were unpaid volunteers (and therefore usually from a higher social class where money was not an issue) who were given basic medical training. These women, while they could not typically give injections, could comfort and provide basic medical treatment to wounded soldiers. The role of a FANY nurse was less glamorous. Their jobs included scrubbing and disinfecting rooms in which wounded soldiers were to be treated, disposing of bodies, organizing baths for front line soldiers, driving (sometimes makeshift) ambulances, and running soup kitchens for the soldiers. Nurses who served could be found behind the front lines of battle, in Army hospitals, on troop trains and transport ships, and anywhere else they were needed. Several nurses