Voluntary Collection (page 3)

Six men, including Belgian patients, Quex House. At least three are Belgian patients. One appears to be in Boy Scout uniform. Others may be Quex House staff, one may be a visiting entertainer

Quex Park VAD Hospital staff
Quex Park VAD Hospital, Birchington, Kent, UK. Staff, with Quex House domestic staff and Powell-Cotton children (Diana 1908-1986), Mary (1910-1998) and Antoinette (1913-1997)

The Waterloo Tower, Quex Park
The Waterloo Tower was built in 1819 to house a ring of twelve bells for English change ringing. It was the first ring of twelve bells in Kent

The Round Tower, Quex Park in snow in February 1916. This tower was built in 1814 as a signalling station for the owner of Quex Park, John Powell Powell

Womens Emergency Corps making toys, WW1
Members of the Womens Emergency Corps learning to make toys in September 1914. Before the war, Germany was the main exporter of toys to Britain but a number of voluntary organisations

Voluntary Aid Detachment Nurse, England. World War One Date: 1910s

Making sphagnum moss dressings, Dartmoor, WW1
A group of cutters and machinists at Princetown on Dartmoor making cases for sphagnum moss which would become surgical dressings during the First World War

Volunteer in Womens Land Army on Duchy of Cornwall farm
Miss C. M. Matheson, a novelist, working as a volunteer under the Womens Land Service scheme during the First World War at the home farm near the village of Stoke Climsland

Lift for troops on leave at London train station, WW1
A party of soldiers on leave are conveyed to their destination station by a member of the Motor Transport Volunteers on arrival in London during the First World War

Greys cigarettes for soldiers
Members of the V.A.D (Voluntary Aid Detachment) who undertook the distribution of 30, 000 cigarettes to soldiers who took part in the Lord Mayors Parade in November 1916

Tea Time in Dining Hall of National Control Canteen, WW1
Female munitions workers in the dining hall of the National Control Canteen, run by voluntary lady workers to provide cheap, nutritious meals for employees. Date: 1916

VAD matron and nurses at a French hospital, WW1
A group of VAD nurses, attached to the St Johns Ambulance Assocation, pictured at a hospital in France where they had been since the outbreak of war. The nurses wear arm brassards with the St

Lady Sclaters Hospital Supply Depot, WW1
Four photographs in the Sphere magazine reporting on the War Hospital Supply Dept opened in August 1915 by Lady Sclater, wife of Lieut.-General Sir H

Women Nurses WW1 VAD. A Young girl perhaps in the uniform of a VAD - Voluntary Aid detachment, goes Off to the front. Date: circa 1915

LFB exhibition, display of WW2 posters
A London Fire Brigade exhibition of photographs and appliances, with a display of WW2 recruitment posters for the AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service)

Civilian doing his bit, WW1
Humorous illustrations showing a British civilian adorned with a whole range of flags, badges and emblems of wartime service

Terrors of the Terrier, Territorial Army cartoon, WW1
The Short-Sighted Matron - (to Territorial on guard at a railway station): Now, don t stand there like a stuffed image, porter! Come and label this luggage

Lady Percy, WW1
Countess Percy, formerly Lady Helen Gordon-Lennox, daughter of the Duke of Richmond and later Duchess of Northumberland. She married Earl Percy in 1911. He succeeded to the dukedom in 1918

Bobette! by Higgins (Womens Legion)
First World War scene with woman wearing the uniform of the Womens Legion (Womens War Services Legion). The Legion provided all kinds of services including cooking for the Army, driving

Marchioness of Londonderry, President of War Services Legion
Lady Londonderry, formerly the Hon. Edith Chaplin, pictured in 1918 when she was President of the Womens War Services Legion (previously known as the Womens Legion)

Womens Legion uniform from Burberrys, 1918
A smart uniform in khaki adopted by members of the Womens War Services Legion and available from Burberrys. Date: 1918

With the Specials, Tower Bridge, M Division, WW1
The Tower Bridge ( M" Division) Special Constabulary, one of the organised forces set up to offer support on the home front during the First World War such as during air raids

An unmilitary salute in silhouette, WW1
Professor Miggs, of the Volunteers, takes his first walk in uniform and gives a very unmilitary salute. An academic type takes to khaki but isn t yet familiar with military etiquette. Date: 1915

Lady Perrott, formerly Ethel Lucy Hare, first Lady Superintendent-in-Chief of the St John Ambulance Brigade. This meant that she took charge of all St John nursing divisions

Queen Alexandra serving at London Bridge buffet, WW1
Queen Alexandra pictured serving soldiers at the free buffet organised by Lady Limerick at London Bridge station in December 1915

Eve walks out with Uncle Fred wearing his volunteer armbands
Illustration by Annie Fish to illustrate Letters of Eve in The Tatler. The eponymous Eve is walking out with her Uncle Fred who always aggressive

A German 15cm Siege gun
A photograph showing a German gun captured by French soldiers during the Battle of the Somme. Intended to be a decisive breakthrough

Voluntary First Aid Road Accident Service - No Fees Accepted : A nurse gives roadside first aid to a female motorist at the scene of a car accident. Date: early 1930s

Roadside First Aid
A voluntary nurse gives roadside fist aid to a female motorist at the scene of an accident. Date: early 1930s

Clothing - Air Raid Victims - Queen Elizabeth & Lady Reading
Inspecting a clothes distribution scheme for Air Raid victims (which have arrived in Britain from New Zealand) - a visit by Queen Elizabeth & Eva Violet Isaacs (neaMond), Marchioness of Reading

Outpatients Department at London Hospital, Whitechapel
Rows of what appear to be mostly women and children sit on benches in the outpatients department of the London Hospital, Whitechapel - on of the capitals many voluntary hospitals. Date: circa 1910

Advert for recruiting women for the WaF 1942
Serve in the WaF. The Womens Auxiliary Air Force. As an administrative airwoman. Good organizers are needed in a fast growing service

Queen Marys Coronation gift, Barn House, Whitstable, Kent

Lifeboat crew, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
The crew of the first voluntary lifeboat of Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, named True to the Core. They are seen here wearing their cork lifebelts. circa 1905

Group photo, Dr Berrys Serbian Mission
A group photograph of Austrian prisoners and their nurses at Dr James Berrys Serbian Mission, a Red Cross Unit in Serbia during the First World War

WaCs
Womenss Army Auxiliary Corps cooking at a field-kitchen, 1933. Date: 1933

Longuenesse (St Omer) Souvenir Cemetery, France, WW1
Part of Longuenesse (St Omer) Souvenir Cemetery, northern France, during the First World War. Showing the graves of Staff Nurses A M Clinie and N M McCrie, and VADs D K Coles ands Thompson

Queens Crown Civil Defence Corps button badge
A Queens Crown Civil Defence Corps button badge in brass and enamel. late 1940s-1950s

WVS Civil Defence poster, Incident Enquiry Point
WVS (Womens Voluntary Service) Civil Defence poster, Incident Enquiry Point. 1940s

World War One nurses by George Ranstead
A simple and stylised illustration on a postcard by George Ranstead, an amateur artist of the Great War who served in the Army Pay Corps

Red Cross workers on World War One battlefield
A hand painted lantern slide depicting Red Cross workers on a World War One battlefield at night, looking for survivors after a battle

London County Council Night Office, Charing Cross Bridge
Applicants waiting outside the London County Councils Night Office at Charing Cross Bridge, Central London. The Office had telephone links to the citys casual wards, as well as to the Salvation Army

Territorial Army poster
Poster promoting the comradeship to be found in the Territorial Army, depicting a group of soldiers sitting contentedly around a camp fire

Collecting supplies for refugees WWII
Rich and poor alike bring gifts to the Womens Voluntary Service Depot for the Belgian refugees during World War II. Here the local chimney sweep brings a pram whilst Lady Lucas Tooth

Womens sewing circle WWII
At Chelsea Town Hall, Lady Musprett is in charge of the sewing circle of Voluntary Workers who are here making black curtains and towels for use in the refugees billets during World War II

Hoover advert
The Hand that held the Hoover helps the Bombed! Advert celebrating the good work of the Womens Voluntary Service, showing the mobile canteens used to provide sustainance to the wartime workers

King George VI talking to wartime farm helpers
King George VI visiting schoolboys working as volunteers on farms in the Southern Counties during the war

Evacuation during the Blitz; Second World War, 1940
Illustration showing the evacuation of civilians by the Womens Voluntary Service during one of the German air-raids on the East End of London, 1940

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