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The WVS was a voluntary organisation founded in 1938 by Stella Isaacs, Marchioness of Reading, as a British women's organisation to recruit women into the Air Raid Precautions (ARP) services to help in the event of War. During and after the Second World War, there were almost 2,000 WVS centres around Great Britain and just over one million members.
Sources:
- https://www.royalvoluntaryservice.org.uk/about-us/our-history/archi... [Matthew McMurray, Royal Voluntary Service Archivist]
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Voluntary_Service