- Object type
- Clothing and accessories
- Date
- Production: 1914 - 1918
- Subject(s)
-
Uniform
Hospitals
Nursing
War
Voluntary Aid Detachment - Associated organisation
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The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem (1999 - present)
British Red Cross (1870 - present) - Associated activity
- War
- Associated event
- War: First World War (28 July 1914 - 11 November 1918)
- Inscriptions
-
obverse: ST JOHN VOLUNTARY AID DETACHMENT
- Dimensions
- Height x width x depth: 66 x 158 x 5mm
- Materials and technique
- Embroidered fabric
- Physical description
-
Black armband, with an embroidered badge sewn on. The circular black badge with inscription of "ST JOHN VOLUNTARY AID DETACHMENT" surrounding off-white eight-pointed cross, superimposed with coat of arms in red and white.
- Production place
- United Kingdom
- Catalogue number
- SJA2210
VAD armband
The Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) unit was founded in 1909 by the British Red Cross and Order of St John. It was made up of a voluntary unit of civilians providing nursing care for military personnel in the United Kingdom and various other countries in the British Empire.