I am researching the Soldiers and Sailors Family Association(SSFA) during WW1. When war broke out and there was the mass enlisting in the Army the government paid Separation Allowance to wives, children or dependent adults of the men who joined. This included, for the first time, wives who were 'not on strength'. The government of the day could not cope with such a massive task and do the 'job' fell to the volunteers of the SSFA, in the main these were ladies who saw it as their 'duty' to help. If anyone has experience in their family of SSFA at the time either as a volunteer or as someone who received help I'd be grateful for their story.
Their work continues today
www.ssafa.org.uk
