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Che Guevara / Builder
ERNESTO GUEVARA Known as CHE GUEVARA Latin American guerrilla leader and revolutionary theorist. Relaxing after a voluntary working Sunday. *UNAVAILABLE FOR USE IN ASIA AT PRESENT*

George Beaumont with manual fire engine, Pinner
George Beaumont, Chief Officer of the Pinner Voluntary Fire Brigade, with a manual fire engine which was kept at Waxwell Lane, Pinner, having previously been housed at The Hall

Suffragette selling badges Date: circa 1910s

Male muscles, artwork

London & South Western Railway Servants Orphanage, Woking
General view of the main building of the London & South Western Railway Servants Orphanage at Woking, Surrey. The orphanage was founded in 1885 in Clapham, south west London

George Beaumont with manual fire engine, Pinner
George Beaumont, Chief Officer of the Pinner Voluntary Fire Brigade, with a manual fire engine which was kept at Waxwell Lane, Pinner, having previously been housed at The Hall

Barnet Voluntary Fire Brigade with manual horse pump
The officers and firemen of the Barnet voluntary fire brigade with the manual horse drawn pump fire engine

Advert for recruiting women for the WaF 1941
You ought to be driving in the WaF. Recruitment of women for The Womens Auxiliary Air Force. Conscription of women did not begin until 1941

Poster advertising the Special Constabulary, seeking fit men and women for part-time voluntary service. Civil Defence is Common Sense. Ask for details at your local police station. 1940s

Red Cross Poster - World War I
Poster asking for donations to the British Red Cross during World War I, stressing urgently that six pounds a minute is required to maintain the number of motor ambulances, hospital ships

Daily lives in London during the Blitz
Four images relating to air-raided London in October 1940. Top left shows cast members at the Windmill Theatre which was the only theatre to remain open; the cast slept in the theatre on mattresses

Mobile Canteens
A row of mobile canteens in Brighton. Note that one of the vans has Y.M.C.A. printed on it. 1940

The British child caught between two stools, Voluntary and State education
527870 The British child caught between two stools, Voluntary and State education. John Leech cartoon from 'Punch', London, 1847. ; Universal History Archive/UIG.

Lady Baird & wounded at Chambery, 19 June 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Lady Baird & wounded at Chambery, 19 June 1918 (date created or published later). Lady Constance Barbara Baird at the Hopital Militaire Belge (Belgian Military Hospital) at Chambe´ry

The War in America: recruiting in New York: the Irish Zouaves, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The War in America: recruiting in New York: the Irish Zouaves, 1862. Scene at a recruiting-office at Mozart Hall, Broadway

Queen Mary visits ambulance corps, 6 Jul 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Queen Mary visits ambulance corps, 6 Jul 1917. Queen Mary of Teck inspecting VADs in St. John Ambulance Hospital at Etaples, France on July 6th 1917 during World War I.

Women's Motor Corps, May 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Women's Motor Corps, May 1917. The members of the Women's Motor Corps of the National League for Women's Service at the 71st Regiment Armory, New York City, May 1917, during World War I.

Colonel J.H. Wells swearing in woman motorist, 29 May 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Colonel J.H. Wells swearing in woman motorist, 29 May 1917. Women in the motor corps of the National League of Women's Service taking the oath of allegiance at the 71st Regiment Armory

Major Connell inoculating woman motorist, 29 May 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Major Connell inoculating woman motorist, 29 May 1917. Major Connell, surgeon of the 71st Regiment, inoculating one of the three hundred women in the Women's Motor Corps of the National League

English women motor volunteers inspected, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
English women motor volunteers inspected, between c1915 and 1918. Women driver volunteers standing in front of automobiles during World War I, in England.

British Voluntary Aid detachment dressing station, 27 Jun 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
British Voluntary Aid detachment dressing station, 27 Jun 1917. A British Red Cross Society Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) Dressing Station, Abbeville, France on June 27, 1917 during World War I.

British Voluntary Aid ambulance drivers at front, 27 Jun 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
British Voluntary Aid ambulance drivers at front, 27 Jun 1917. Group of British Red Cross Society Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) and First Aid Nursing Yeomanry Women's Transport Service (F.A.N.Y)

Volunteers, New York, 1917 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Volunteers, New York, 1917 and 1918. Soldier volunteers during World War I, New York City.

American Nurse, American ambulance, Paris, between 1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
American Nurse, American ambulance, Paris, between 1914 and c1915. An American nurse with a patient in Paris, France during World War I.

Ulster Volunteers, Belfast, 8 Apr 1916. Creator: Bain News Service
Ulster Volunteers, Belfast, 8 Apr 1916 (date created or published later). Ulster volunteer soldiers from Belfast marching in the street during World War I.

American Volunteers, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
American Volunteers, between c1910 and c1915. American recruits holding an American flag during World War I.

Dr. Mary Crawford, 11 Oct 1914. Creator: Bain News Service
Dr. Mary Crawford, 11 Oct 1914. Dr. Mary Crawford of Brooklyn, New York who was part of a group of doctors who went to help at the American Ambulance Hospital in Paris during World War I.

Doctors & families going to war zone, 10/17/14, Dr. Mary Crawford, 17 Oct 1914. Creator: Bain News Service
Doctors & families going to war zone, 10/17/14, Dr. Mary Crawford, 17 Oct 1914 (date created or published later). A group of American doctors including Dr

At German Consulate, New York, 1914 April or May. Creator: Bain News Service
At German Consulate, New York, 1914 April or May. German Americans at the German Consulate in New York City as part of German mobilization before World War I.

Fire brigade of the Krasnoyarsk Volunteer Fire Society, 1910. Creator: I. Upatkin
Fire brigade of the Krasnoyarsk Volunteer Fire Society, 1910. From a collection which includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late tsarist period

Review of Derbyshire Rifle Volunteers at Chatsworth Park - from a drawing by T. Walton, 1860. Creator: Unknown
Review of Derbyshire Rifle Volunteers at Chatsworth Park - from a drawing by T. Walton, 1860....about 25, 000 persons assembled to witness the review...Upwards of 12, 000 volunteers were reviewed

Les Soubresauts de la Russie; Un bureau de recrutement pour engages volontaires... 1917. Creator: Unknown
Les Soubresauts de la Russie; Un bureau de recrutement pour engages volontaires a Petrograd, en juillet et aout 1917: tandis que l'armee reguliere se desagregeait

Distant Fronts, In Hejaz; Volunteers in the army of King Hussein, 1917. Creator: Unknown
Distant Fronts, In Hejaz; Volunteers in the army of King Hussein, 1917. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" [L'Illustration, Paris, 1924]

How to make a surprise attack; Departure: in the foreground, seen from behind... 1917. Creator: Unknown
How to make a surprise attack; Departure: in the foreground, seen from behind, a stretcher-bearer accompanies troops, as a volunteer, to help any wounded, without belonging to the fighting group

L'Avant-Guerre aux Etats-Unis; Le mouvement national aux Etats-Unis en 1915: distribution...1917
L'Avant-Guerre aux Etats-Unis; Le mouvement national aux Etats-Unis en 1915: distribution d'objets d'equipement aux volontaires arrivant au camp de Plattsburg, 1917

Night march at Christmastide of the Rifle Volunteers - drawn by Harrison Weir, 1st Surrey... 1860. Creator: J Greenaway
Night march at Christmastide of the Rifle Volunteers - drawn by Harrison Weir, 1st Surrey Rifles, 1860. Music by W. M. Balfe, words by Mark Lemon

Gun practice on board H.M.S. "Brilliant", 1860. Creator: Unknown. Gun practice on board H.M.S
Gun practice on board H.M.S. "Brilliant", 1860. British seamen in the Naval Reserve: scene showing...a gun's crew at lever target-practice - in the act of laying the gun for

Presentation of a silver trumpet to the Artillery Corps and a silver bugle to the Rifle... 1860. Creator: Unknown
Presentation of a silver trumpet to the Artillery Corps and a silver bugle to the Rifle Corps, at Boston, 1860. Event held in the park of Major Hopkins. Mrs

The Volunteer Guards (32nd Middlesex), generally known as the Six-Foot Corps. 1860. Creator: Unknown
The Volunteer Guards (32nd Middlesex), generally known as the Six-Foot Corps. 1860. Undress, Private; Undress, Officer; Full Dress, Officer; Full Dress, Private; Undress

Presentation to the Highgate Rifle Corps of a silver bugle by Miss Burdet Coutts... 1860. Creator: Unknown
Presentation to the Highgate Rifle Corps of a silver bugle by Miss Burdet Coutts, at Holly Lodge, Highgate, 1860. The company having taken their seats, the battalion marched up in column,

Banquet at the Crossbowmen's Guild in Celebration of the Treaty of Münster, 1648
Banquet at the Crossbowmen's Guild in Celebration of the Treaty of Munster, 1648. Other Title(s): The Celebration of the Peace of Munster, 18 June 1648

Cartoon on the voluntary sacrifice for the Fatherland, 1774-1833. Creator: Jacob Smies
Cartoon on the voluntary sacrifice for the Fatherland, 1774-1833. A sleeping man by an offering box covered with a large spider web. a minister with an orange cockade flees

Portrait of Harmen van de Poll, Son of Jan van de Poll, 1650-1700. Creator: Unknown
Portrait of Harmen van de Poll, Son of Jan van de Poll, 1650-1700. Copy after Johannes Spilberg II

Portrait of Jan van de Poll, Burgomaster of Amsterdam, 1650-1700. Creator: Unknown
Portrait of Jan van de Poll, Burgomaster of Amsterdam, 1650-1700. Copy after Johannes Spilberg II

L'entrée de l'Italie dans la Guere, le 24 mai 1915; Trois petits-fils de Garibaldi, 1915. Creator: Unknown
'L'entree de l'Italie dans la Guere, le 24 mai 1915; Trois petits-fils de Garibaldi venus combattre en France'

'L'effort de l'Angleterre, 1915. Creator: Unknown
'L'effort de l'Angleterre, 1915. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919: Volume I" [L'Illustration, Paris, 1926]

'L'effort de l'Angleterre, 1915. Creator: Unknown
'L'effort de l'Angleterre, 1915. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919: Volume I" [L'Illustration, Paris, 1926]

'L'effort de l'Angleterre, 1915. Creator: Unknown
'L'effort de l'Angleterre, 1915. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919: Volume I" [L'Illustration, Paris, 1926]

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"Voluntary: Uniting Hearts and Hands for a Cause" Che Guevara, the iconic revolutionary, embodying the spirit service. George Beaumont bravely maneuvering a manual fire engine in Pinner, showcasing the dedication of builders to protect their community. A suffragette selling badges, symbolizing how even small acts can contribute to monumental social change. The beauty of male muscles captured in artwork, reminding us that strength comes in many forms when volunteering. London & South Western Railway Servants Orphanage in Woking, providing hope and support for those left vulnerable by tragedy. Miss Flora Petersen, a canteen-worker during WW1, selflessly nourishing soldiers' bodies and souls amidst chaos and conflict. Barnet Voluntary Fire Brigade with their trusty horse pump exemplifying the bravery and resourcefulness of volunteers during emergencies. An advert from 1941 recruiting women for the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WaF), highlighting how gender barriers were broken through voluntary service during wartime. Poster advertising the Special Constabulary - ordinary citizens turned volunteer police officers safeguarding their communities during challenging times. Red Cross Poster from World War I depicting nurses tending to wounded soldiers; an enduring symbol of compassion and voluntary aid on the battlefield. Daily lives in London during the Blitz - stories of resilience as volunteers rallied together to provide comfort and support amidst relentless bombings. In a world where individuals choose to give their time freely for various causes – be it fighting injustice like Che Guevara or building safer communities like George Beaumont – we witness firsthand how voluntary efforts shape our society's fabric. From suffragettes passionately advocating for equal rights to artists capturing moments that inspire change through their creations; every act contributes towards making our world better.