Series[UMA-SRE-20160074] VOLUNTARY AID DETACHMENTS (VAD) PERSONNEL REGISTERSAccession[UMA-AC-000000293] Australian Red Cross 2016 transferIdentifierUMA-ITE-2016007400002Scope and ContentRegister of staff who served during the Influenza epidemic from January - March 1919; recording Voluntary Aid Detachments (VAD), Trained Nurses and Volunteers who worked at hospitals, rest homes and temporary influenza hospitals across Melbourne.
Against each hospital location is listed the full name and home address of VADs, nurses and volunteers. The volume is paginated (pp. 1-382) printed top left- and right-hand corners.
Pages 1-97 are used, pp.98 onwards are blank.
Hospitals include Red Cross Rest Home, Alfred Hospital, Brunswick temporary Hospital, Wonthaggi Hospital, Brighton Temporary Hospital, Base Hospital, Northcote Temporary Hospital, Coode Island, Coburg Temporary Hospital, Camberwell Temporary Hospital, Children's Hospital, Dandenong Temporary, Fairfield Temporary, Essendon Temporary Hospital, Exhibition Hospital, Footscray Temporary Hospital, Fitzroy temporary, Fairfield Infectious Diseases, Homeopathic Hospital, Hawthorn Temporary, Caulfield Temporary, Mordialloc Temporary, Melbourne Hospital, Macleod No 16 AGH, Macleod Sanatorium, Oakleigh Temporary, Prahran Temporary, Preston Temporary, Police Depot Hospital, Port Melbourne Temporary, Queen Victoria Hospital, Red Cross Rest Home, Richmond Temporary, Sunshine Temporary, South Melbourne Temporary, St Vincent de Paul Orphanage, Sandringham Temporary, St Kilda Temporary, Studley Hall Kew, Williamstown Temporary, Malvern Temporary, Linden Nurses Hospital.
An alphabetical index attached to the back of volume records the page numbers for hospitals as well as anomalies such as ‘VADs sent to Private cases,’ ‘VADs sent to the Country,’ ‘Patrol Duty’ etc.
There are two loose folios (following p.75 ‘Red Cross Rest Home’) listing ‘Girls who worked during Epidemic.’ Comprises surnames and initials as well as their roles in the: office, kitchen, dining room, laundry etc.
Throughout the book there are occasional notes such as ‘partly trained’ ‘did not report for duty’ ‘did not follow instructions’ etc.Access StatusOpen for public accessRequest TypeRequest unitUnit2016.0074 Unit 0002MenuBrowse digitised items | Available online
Australian Red Cross Society, Victorian Division, Influenza Temporary Hospitals Staffing Register (1919), [UMA-ITE-2016007400002]. University of Melbourne Archives, accessed 01/05/2026, https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/430210
