Old Travel Blog Photograph Red Cross Fonab Castle Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the British Red Cross at Fonab Castle, Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland. Between 1915 and 1918 the castle served as a British Red Cross auxiliary hospital caring for wounded soldiers. Auxiliary hospitals were usually staffed by: a commandant, who was in charge of the hospital except for the medical and nursing services; a quartermaster, who was responsible for the receipt, custody and issue of articles in the provision store, a matron, who directed the nursing staff, members of the local Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD), who were trained in first aid and home nursing.



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