VAD badge : M D Ingram, Volunteer Aid Detachment

Place Oceania: Australia
Accession Number REL33295
Collection type Heraldry
Object type Badge
Physical description Nickel-plated brass
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia
Date made c 1941
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Description

Brooch badge with the letters 'VAD' above a small circle with the number '240'. Two lugs have been soldered to the reverse side for attachment.

History / Summary

Associated with the service of Marjorie Doreen Ingram who was born in July 1898 in Sydney, New South Wales. Ingram served in Sydney with Volunteer Aid Detachment 240 during the Second World War. She was married Robert Cuthbert Ingram in 1939. He became a prisoner of the Japanese in 1942 and died in Japan in 1944.