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Description: | The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents awarded this National Civil Defence Safe Driving Award to Gladys O McClelland. Gladys was a member of the London Auxiliary Ambulance Service from 1 September 1942 to 31 August 1943.
During the Second World War, over 10,000 volunteers, many of them women, worked for the London Auxiliary Ambulance Service. As a qualified driver, Gladys would have been responsible for transporting to hospital those injured or killed during bombing air raids. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Museum of London | Rights holder: | Museum of London | Subjects: | Transport London at War | Temporal: | 1943 | Source: | Museum of London | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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