Old Travel Blog Photograph World War One Red Cross Nurse Fossoway Perthshire Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of a World War One Red Cross Nurse in Fossoway, Perthshire, Scotland. During World War One branches of the Red Cross had groups of volunteers called Voluntary Aid Detachments, often abbreviated to VAD. Voluntary Aid Detachment members themselves came to be known simply as VADs. Famous women who volunteered for the Red Cross during the war include: Agatha Christie who served as a VAD nurse at a hospital in Torquay, England. Enid Bagnold, author of National Velvet and The Chalk Garden. She served in London as a VAD. The Parish of Fossoway was combined with the parish of Tullibole which is one of the oldest parishes in Scotland and records show that it was in existence before 1574. In 1614 the parishes were combined when the church at Tullibole was abandonded. It is said that Fossoway churchyard was used, in the 17th century, by a coven of Scottish witches, eleven of whom were burned at the stake in the village of the Crook of Devon.



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