and now the second season of Downton Abbey takes place during the war, when the great house is remade into a convalescent hospital.
PBS has it as streaming video for those living in the US.
JaneAusten'sWorld Blog has several posts and interesting links about the times portrayed in the series...this poster for volunteers is from her blog...LadySybil the feminist becomes a VAD in the series.
VADs were trained for only a few weeks before working under professional nurses.
more about women who helped with the war effort in the "great war" can be found HERE.
and for another woman's view of the great war, from a middle class VAD who worked in France, check out this sad biographical miniseries:
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