Red Cross Volunteer Aid Detachment VAD nurses c1940

Red Cross VAD Nurses South Canterbury Museum 200919208

I wonder who these ladies were

Red Cross Volunteer Aid Detachment VAD nurses c1940

A group portrait of Red Cross Volunteer Aid Detachment nurses, trained to fill hospital staffing shortages during World War Two.

Depicts six rows of women, identified as (from left to right):
FRONT ROW: [unidentified]; Miss Beck; Mrs Breen; Miss Sunaway; Mrs Brownie; Mrs Scott, Helen King; [remainder unidentified]
SECOND ROW (from rear): Maureen Allen (nee Clements); [remainder unidentified]

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