Women's Voluntary Service

STW described to Genevieve Taggard (somewhat ironically) her war work for the WVS . In February 1943 she volunteered as part-time helper to the village builder and decorator, whose assistant had been called up...

In an adult novel entitled I Ordered a Table for Six, NS drew on her ongoing experience as a London air-raid warden during World War Two and an organizer for the Women's Voluntary Service .

On the outbreak of the Second World War, NS joined the Women's Voluntary Service and worked running a mobile canteen service which delivered food to air-raid shelters in South London (Bermondsey and Deptford). She had...

In London LBL nursed the wounded during the First World War, then took up social activism. She was for years the head of the Women's Voluntary Service . During the Second World War, while keeping...

During World War TwoAWE , besides being a member of the WVS (Women's Voluntary Services), accommodated child evacuees from the dock cities of Liverpool and Birkenhead at Plâs Brondanw in North Wales.

RG published at the behest of the Bengal branch of the WVS a work of contemporary history, Bengal Journey: a story of the part played by women in the province,1939-1945.

After leaving Kashmir RG stayed for nine months in Calcutta with her sister Jon, and toured Bengal in order to write a book about the war-work there of the WVS .

SJ 's youngest sister, Dorothy Pateman , was killed by a German bomb that hit the People's Pantry at Reading, where Pateman had been working with the Women's Voluntary Service (WVS ).