Identificatie
Soort entiteit
Instelling
Geauthoriseerde naam
Women's Voluntary Service for Civil Defence
Parallelle vormen van de naam
Gestandaardiseerde naamvorm(en) volgens andere regels.
Aandere naamsvormen
Royal Voluntary Service
Women's Voluntary Services
Women's Royal Voluntary Service
Identificatiecode voor organisaties
Beschrijving
Bestaansperiode
1938-
Geschiedenis
The Royal Voluntary Service is a voluntary organisation concerned with helping people in need throughout England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. It was founded in 1938 by Stella Isaacs, Marchioness of Reading, as a British women's organisation to recruit women into the Air Raid Precautions services to help in the event of war