Beyond the Call presentation
The Railway Club, Coxhill Way, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP21 8HH
This presentation-come-performance explores the story of the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD), largely naive shire girls and vicars’ daughters who’d never done a day’s work and couldn’t even boil an egg. A jolly jape to dress up and become a volunteer nurse turned into the surreal world of mud, blood, lice and mustard gas, a million miles from the Edwardian drawing-room charades they left behind forever. Above all, though, it is the story of quiet, understated heroism, dogged determination in the midst of impossible odds, and the doughty British character hopefully still glimmering somewhere in the darkness.
The living legacy of the Nursing Memorial Appeal is to continue raising funds to support today’s students with a passion for training and research in conflict and humanitarian nursing. Your support will contribute to a permanent link between yesterday’s heroes and tomorrow’s
savers of lives.
Timings
- Sunday 13 September:
- 1330
Location & directions
The Railway Club, Coxhill Way, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP21 8HH
- Directions:
- Round the back of the flats, towards the railway station
- Contact on day:
- Dan Reynolds
- Telephone number:
- +447761055149
Booking information
- Pre-booking requirement:
- Pre-booking preferred
- Booking conditions:
- Book using the link below!
- Booking contact name:
- Dan Reynolds
- Booking telephone number:
- +441296425678
- Booking website:
- https://www.tickettailor.com/events/heritageopendaysaylesbury
Additional information
- Max number of people:
- 55
- Estimated duration:
- 1 hour(s) 30 minute(s)
