The Women’s Voluntary Service (WVS) ... there is a tragedy or accident maybe — working voluntarily to help just as others did in so many areas during the Second World War. ...

The main role of Buxton in the Second World War was as a 'Safe Area' (the official term may have been 'Reception Area') and as such the town received an influx of evacuees of all types. The most ...

The WVS in Hitchin ran a wonderful clothes shop during the Second World War. Parents would take the clothes that their children had outgrown and the shop assistants would award points according to ...

In September 1938, the WVS -- later re-named the WRVS after royal decree -- was established with 160,000 members by the time the Second World War started the following year. The women picked up ...

The Women’s Voluntary Service (WVS) in Coleraine in WWII Organiser - Mrs. Florence Shaw M.B.E. My mother had always been involved in voluntary work in the years prior to the outbreak of WWII in ...