Voluntary Aid Detachment
Hospital tent at Pleasantville, St. John's, 1914
Taken by Robert Palfrey Holloway, Holloway Studio (St. John`s, NL).
Courtesy of The Rooms Provincial Archives Division (B 3-2), St. John's, NL.
Newfoundland Ward at the St. John Ambulance Brigade Hospital, Étaples, France, 1915.
Presented by Members and Friends of the St. John Ambulance Association and Brigade Overseas In The Colony of Newfoundland.
From the Ruby Ayre Album, p 18. Courtesy of the Archives and Special Collections (Coll-322 1.01), QE II Library, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL.
Rehabilitation beds at Jensen Camp attended by three nurses, n.d.
Patients are lying in beds in a ward at Jensen Camp. Jensen Camp operated as an isolation hospital for veterans suffering from tuberculolsis from 1916-1921.
Courtesy of The Rooms Provincial Archives Division (E 25-36), St. John's, NL.
Injured soldiers, 1916
No other information available.
From the Ruby Ayre Album, p 3. Courtesy of the Archives and Special Collections (Coll-322 1.01), QE II Library, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL.
VAD Members with Injured Soldiers, n.d.
The women are identified left to right as: front row: Lalla, Sister Skull, Nancy, and Mrs McClintock. Second Row: Marjorie and Monica. Back Row: Ruby, Molly Lillingston, and Ellinor.
From the Ruby Ayre Album, p 15. Courtesy of the Archives and Special Collections (Coll-322 1.01), QE II Library, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL.
VAD Members with Injured Soldiers, Lower End of Large Ward, 1917
Taken at the Earles Colne Red Cross Hospital in Essex between 24 February and 24 April, 1917.
From the Ruby Ayre Album, p 38. Courtesy of the Archives and Special Collections (Coll-322 1.01), QE II Library, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL.
Sports at Lavender Farm, July 1917
No other information available.
From the Ruby Ayre Album, p 51. Courtesy of the Archives and Special Collections (Coll-322 1.01), QE II Library, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL.
VAD members having tea, n.d.
Below the photo the women are identified from left to right as Beth, Matron, Sister Bashe-Fox, and Sister Logan.
From the Ruby Ayre Album, p 7. Courtesy of the Archives and Special Collections (Coll-322 1.01), QE II Library, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL.
VAD members at work, 1916
Identified as Pat (left) and Lalla (right).
From the Ruby Ayre Album, p 13. Courtesy of the Archives and Special Collections (Coll-322 1.01), QE II Library, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL.
VAD Kitchen Staff, April-July
Identified: Martha, Ruby, and Beth standing, Mary sitting on the steps. Based on its location in the album, the image was probably taken in 1917.
From the Ruby Ayre Album, p 50. Courtesy of the Archives and Special Collections (Coll-322 1.01), QE II Library, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL.
Frances Cluett, Rouen, France, c.a. 1917.
Courtesy of the Archives and Special Collections (Coll. - 174.5.01.002), QE II Library, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL.
VAD members serving a meal, Christmas, 1916
Identified as Sheila, Beth, Evelyn Kaye, Ellinor Dorothy Cordes, Nancy, Ruby, and Ismay.
From the Ruby Ayre Album, p 31. Courtesy of the Archives and Special Collections (Coll-322 1.01), QE II Library, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL.
VAD members at table, n.d.
Identified as Noel Lacy (left) and Margaret Sameson (right).
From the Ruby Ayre Album, p 8. Courtesy of the Archives and Special Collections (Coll-322 1.01), QE II Library, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL.
Bringing up the Dinners, 12:15 pm, 1916
Identified as Ruby (left) and Georgie (right).
From the Ruby Ayre Album, p 7. Courtesy of Archives and Special Collections (Coll-322 1.01), QE II Library, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL.
Wandsworth Hospital, London, England, n.d.
Courtesy of the Heritage Society of Grand Falls-Windsor, Grand Falls-Windsor, NL.
Three nurses outside Jensen Camp, n.d.
No other information available.
Courtesy of The Rooms Provincial Archives Division (E 25-31), St. John's, NL.
Group photo of VAD members at Government House, n.d.
Back row, third from left is Blanche Eleanor Bartlett (Jan. 17 1894 - 1973), a nurse. Blanche Bartlett was the sister of Captain Robert "Bob" Abram Bartlett.
Courtesy of The Rooms Provincial Archives Division (E 25-30), St. John's, NL.
The Ascot Hospital, n.d.
From the Ruby Ayre Album, p 3. Courtesy of the Archives and Special Collections (Coll-322 1.01), QE II Library, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL.
Wounded Newfoundland Regiment soldiers at Wandsworth Hospital, London, England, ca. 1916.
Courtesy of The Rooms Provincial Archives Division (VA 37-29.4), St. John's, NL.
VAD printed propaganda, n.d.
From the Ruby Ayre Album, p. 5. Courtesy of the Archives and Special Collections (Coll-322 1.01), QE II Library, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL.
VAD printed propaganda, n.d.
From the Ruby Ayre Album, p 5. Courtesy of Archives and Special Collections (Coll-322 1.01), QE II Library, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL.
Transport Papers, n.d.
Courtesy of the Archives and Special Collections (Coll. - 174.3.01.002), QE II Library, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL.
Sample termination of service letter, n.d.
Courtesy of the Archives and Special Collections (Coll. - 174.3.01.006), QE II Library, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL.
Form letter home, n.d.
From the Ruby Ayre Album, p 27. Courtesy of the Archives and Special Collections (Coll-322 1.01), QE II Library, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL.
Frances Cluett, n.d.
Courtesy of the Archives and Special Collections (Coll. - 174.5.01.002), QE II Library, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL.
Spring Cleaning on King's Ward, 1916
No other information available.
From the Ruby Ayre Album, p 13. Courtesy of the Archives and Special Collections (Coll-322 1.01), QE II Library, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL.