WVS collecting aluminium

Women's Voluntary Service (WVS)

By September 1943, more than 1 million women had joined the WVS. They performed tasks which eased the problems on the Home Front, such as

• Caring for evacuee children
• Organising tea stations and canteens for people who had been bombed out of their homes, and for air raid shelters
• Caring for children who were ill
• Looking after British prisoners of war in the Far East, when war had come to an end
• Organising salvage (recycling) campaigns
• Driving ambulances