British Red Cross Launches Digital A-Z Archive of First World War Volunteers

Nursing dying soldiers, driving ambulances through the trenches and searching for the missing are just some of the ways voluntary aid detachments (VADs) cared for the sick and wounded during the First World War.

Today, the British Red Cross celebrates the completion of an online archive of more than 244,000 personnel index cards, which provide a new picture of their work on the home front and overseas.

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