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Message: [QUOTE="Bob Godfrey, post: 265779, member: 136612"] VAD nurses were paid the standard rate for nursing employment, but those with independent means were encouraged to donate their pay to the Red Cross. It's true that some of the volunteers had never scrubbed a floor or made a cup of tea in their lives before, but the representation of social classes in the VAD detachments was probably not far different from that in the Nation as a whole. See my postings in this thread: [url="https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/discus/messages/5914/42459.html"]https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/discus/messages/5914/42459.html[/url] and check out this link for recollections: [url="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWnurses.htm"]http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWnurses.htm[/url] [/QUOTE]