1950s British Red Cross Society Voluntary Aid Detachment VAD Badge

For sale is a Post WW2 1950s British Red Cross Society Voluntary Aid Detachment VAD Enamel Badge manufactured by J.R.Gaunt B’Ham. The enamel is in good condition but there is wear to the gilt.    The Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) was a voluntary unit of civilians providing nursing care for military personnel in the United Kingdom and various other countries in the British Empire. The most important periods of operation for these units were during World War I and World War II. Although VADs were intimately bound up in the war effort, they were not military nurses, as they were not under the control of the military, unlike the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps, the Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service, and the Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service. The VAD nurses worked in field hospitals, i.e., close to the battlefield, and in longer-term places of recuperation back in Britain.   This will be sent via Royal Mail 1st class signed for and dispatched within two working days.