Lives of the First World War

BRENNAN Kathleen Adele VAD Nurse Red Cross- Australian Women who Served Overseas / Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) Service in England WW1 Australian Women Deaths : Voluntary Aid Detachments (VAD) Date of Death: 24 November 1918 Leichester England British Red Cross, Service 5th Northern General, Leicester Died on Service 24.11.18 JW V.A.D. New South Wales Informal portrait of Kathleen Adele Brennan, Australian Red Cross Society, member of the Voluntary Aid Detachment which left Australia for United Kingdom aboard HMAT Osterley, on 27 September 1916, shown wearing a VAD ward uniform. Brennan died of influenza at Leicester, England on 24 November 1918.

Informal portrait of Kathleen Adele Brennan, Australian Red Cross Society, member of the Voluntary Aid Detachment which left Australia for United Kingdom aboard HMAT Osterley, on 27 September 1916, in a VAD outdoor uniform. The uniform includes dark blue skirt and jacket, bonnet like cap, white shirt and black tie, black stockings and black lace up shoes. Brennan died of influenza at Leicester, England on 24 November 1918

A Memorial to Voluntary Aid Detachment and Professional Nurses who lost their lives in the 1st and 2nd World Wars, at the National Memorial Arboretum in Alrewas, Staffordshire, dedicated and unveiled on 4th June 2018 at an event attended by HRH The Countess of Wessex GCVO, Royal Patron of the Nursing Memorial Appeal. The memorial takes the form of hands cast in bronze holding a globe carrying the names of nurses who lost their lives in service in the two World Wars. Further information about the memorial can be found on the Nursing Memorial Appeal website at www.nursingmemorialappeal.org.uk