Erection date: 4/7/2017
Stella Lady Reading, 1894 - 1971, Founder of the Women's Voluntary Services, worked at its headquarters here 1938 - 1966.
English Heritage
SW1, Tothill Street, 41
This building, now a hotel, was the wartime headquarters of the Women's Voluntary Services.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Stella, Lady Reading
A voluntary organisation concerned with helping people in need throughout the...
Philanthropist. Born Stella Charnaud in Constantinople (now Istanbul), Turkey...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Stella, Lady Reading
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