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APPEAL FOR WAR VICTIMS RELIEF: WORLD WAR II

APPEAL FOR WAR VICTIMS RELIEF: WORLD WAR II

Appeal leaflet from War Victims Relief Committee of the Society of Friends (Quakers) for funds to assist with the evacution of families from the bombed cities of London, Coventry, Southampton and Bristol. From a series of albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, assorted ephemera and a diary, kept by Mrs Lucy Awdry of 14 Franconia Road, Clapham, for the duration of World War II and recording wartime life in London. During the war Mrs Awdry volunteered with the Women's Voluntary Service (WVS) assisting with fire watch duties and also at the Clapham War Savings Centre. From the Lambeth Archives Home Front project 2005.
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Collection:Home Front Project 2005
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Ref:06843
Identifier:IV 169 Vol.7
Date:1941

#1926 - 1950  #Awdry Collection  #RELIGION  #WAR AND ARMED FORCES