WW1 Women's Volunteer Reserve Magazines.

2 x editions, May and June 1917, of the Magazine of the Women's Volunteer Reserve. 20pgs with news of the various units around the country with some illustrations and period adverts.
The Women’s Volunteer Reserve emerged from one of the suffragette movements, the Women’s Social and Political Union. It was founded as The Women’s Emergency Corps in 1914 by Evelina Haverfield and Decima Moore to contribute to the war effort. The Corps later evolved into the Women’s Volunteer Reserve. The WVR was mainly involved in domestic fund-raising activities, and was primarily made up of middle-class women, due to the fact that they had to pay for their own uniform.
Both magazines in good overall condition, both have ben folded probably when distributed by post.

Code: 8513