Women's Voluntary Services The Uniforms, Insignia and Ephemera of the Home Front in Britain 1939-1945 (Within the Island Fortress No.1)

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Edité par Wardens Publishing, 2006

095281143X / 9780952811435

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Softback 32 pages illustrated in colour & B&W throughoutPublished Price £9.50 The WVS played a key part in the evacuation of civilians from urban areas, overseen by National Administrator Kathleen Halpin.The WVS had been asked to pinpoint areas of safety and billeting for evacuated children. Moving children out of the cities proved reasonably easy. Getting them to a known area of safety proved a lot more difficult as trains did not always arrive at an expected destination or would turn up at a reception point unexpectedly. The WVS is credited with helping to move 1.5 million people (the majority were children) out of cities in the early days of September 1939When troops returned to ports after the evacuation at Dunkirk, members of the WVS were there to greet them and hand out food, drink and warm clothing. By the time of the Blitz, women in the WVS were adept at providing food and drink around the clock. While ARP wardens and firemen fought the fires, women in the WVS set up mobile canteens to keep them refreshed, thus placing themselves in serious physical danger with collapsing buildings a constant threat.In the build-up to D-Day, the expertise the WVS had in catering was put to use again. The skills learned during the Blitz were again put to good use when the V-1 and V-2 rockets fell on London. Once again, the WVS played a key role in evacuation.…

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Women's Voluntary Services The Uniforms, Insignia and Ephemera of the Home Front in Britain 1939-1945 (Within the Island Fortress No.1)
Auteur
Jon Mills
Éditeur
Wardens Publishing
Année de publication
2006
État de l'article
New
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Book
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Couverture souple
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
095281143X
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780952811435
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