My family involvement in The National Emergency Washing Service sent from the UK by Lever Brothers to The Netherlands.

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posted on 2024-06-05, 18:59 authored by Their Finest Hour Project Team

Lucy Hennessy went with the 'Persil' vans to Belgium and Holland to enable people to wash and wash their clothes. Lever Bros said ' The units will be servicing repatriates who have been freed from slave labour in Germany.

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1. Information sheet from Lever Brothers to people going out with the washing service 2. Metal badge 'National Emergency Washing Service 3. Two photographs of my grandmother with a washing van 4. War Office confirmation of her gaining the war medal 1939-45 5. News cutting about the washing service 6. Lucy Hennessy in her Vroupen Hulp Korps ( women's auxiliary service of the Netherlands)

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Lucy Hennessy

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Kathleen Fry

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Lucy Hennessy was my paternal grandmother.

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Shared online via the Their Finest Hour project website.

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