Fighting the good fight

Different ways of dying across the British Isles

Q One of the photos is of my paternal grandmother in what I’m sure is a VAD uniform but I can’t find her listed anywhere. I’m assuming this was c. 1914/16, as my father was born early 1918. She was bo

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