http://www.canadianwarbrides.com/vads1.html
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The Red Cross Corps was a female-only Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) whose job it was to assist the Department of National Defence during and immediately after the war's end. Corp members did everything from the dreary to the dangerous: from inspecting and packing jam for overseas and circulating library books in military hospitals, to driving trucks and ambulances on the beachheads in France and performing escort duty on board ships during war time.
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It seems that the Salvation Army was also a VAD.
The British Red Cross Society supplied ambulances to the Army, some of which were driven by FANY members at Red Cross request. So, I suppose the military ambulances were supplied for the use of the military forces, and civilian ones such as French Red Cross, St John Ambulance, Hospitals, and also British Red Cross plus BRITISH AMERICAN AMBULANCE CORPS had civilian registrations. One report I read said that the FANYs were issued in Plymouth with some ambulances donated by the Rotary Club of Ontario.