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INDENTVera Mary Countess of Rosslyn, wife of the 5th Earl of Rosslyn, joined Millicent Duchess of Sutherland's (her sister-in-law) Ambulance Unit (later No. 9 Red Cross Hospital) as a V.A.D. in October 1914; served at the Hotel Belle Vue, Dunkirk, an evacuation hospital for French wounded with 70 to 100 beds, until February 1915; later served at the Hosptial for British Wounded at Calais, March 1916 -- April 1917; on her return from France in 1917 until May 1918, nursed part-time at Struan House Auxiliary Hospital, Reading