SEW/7 - Serbian Relief Fund (SRF) , First World War and interwar years (1914-1953, mainly 1914-1921)
Previous number: boxes 9, 10, 18, 19, 20, part of box Q and Serbian Relief Fund items 1-22
The Serbian Relief Fund (SRF) was set up in September 1914 in order to ease the humanitarian crisis in Serbia. RWSW was honorary secretary of the SRF and his wife May was a leading organiser during the war years. The first aid sent to Serbia was medical, by the end of 1914 the first teams of doctors and nurses had been sent. As the war progressed the SRF expanded its operations to aid Serbian refugees and prisoners of war. Later it was also involved in the education in Britain of a number of Serbian refugee boys. The SRF campaigned for the revictualling of the population of occupied Serbia. This was something Government was reluctant to do as it feared benefiting enemy forces. The decision to wind up the SRF was taken by the Executive Committee in December 1920. However it took several further years before it was possible to conclude unfinished business. remaining SRF assets were transferred to the Niš Orphanage Trust which remained in operation until after the Second World War which it was taken over by the Yugoslav Government. RWSW was a trustee of the Niš Orphanage Trust throughout its existence.
Contents: minute books, correspondence, diaries, ledgers and other papers; also some photographs and lantern slides
21 volumes and 6 boxes
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