it worries me too, because for the most part this was extremely hard work, never ending grind that the VAD;s and nurses did, and much of what they did largely went unrewarded in terms of medals, and standing in the communities when they came home. Vera Brittain was similar to the girls, she was very middle class, and rather sheltered, but after losing her fiance, brother and most of his friends, the officer class to the war, she joined the VAD's, her book is one of my treasured possessions.