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British Voluntary Aid detachment dressing station (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Art Siegel said:

  From the Imperial War Museum site:
  
  "WOMEN'S SERVICES ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1918
  
  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION FIRST WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Brooks, Ernest (Lieutenant) (Photographer) 1917-06-27
  
  In a British Red Cross Society, Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) Dressing Station, Abbeville, 27th June 1917."
  
  www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205078810
  
  
  WOMEN'S SERVICES ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1918© IWM (Q 2471)

• Art Siegel said:

  see also digital.nls.uk/74546672 "Looking into a wooden-clad room. There are tables and trestle seats down either side of the room and a stove in the middle. There is a soldier having his hand bandaged by a nurse on the right. There is another soldier on a stretcher being set down on the floor. The matron is sitting at her desk at the back of the room in front of boxes of medical equipment. V.A.D. stands for Voluntary Aid Detachment. This station is incredibly clean and well organised. It was often the case with these photographs for propaganda that they were posed and pre-organised for optimum effect on morale. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. In a V.A.D. dressing station.']."

• aware health said:

  "This station is incredibly clean and well organised." I do note that the fellow on the left appears to have tracked in some mud. The nurses will be cross.

• Ryan (LOC P&P) said:

  Thanks for finding the source of the image Art Siegel. We'll add some of the information to the record the next time we update.