The Women's Australian National Service was founded by Lady Margaret Loder Wakehurst (1899-1994) in June 1940, at a conference. She was its president and commander-in-chief. Lady Wakehurst was the popular wife of John de Vere Loder Wakehurst, the Governor General of New South Wales from 1937 until 1946. Mrs L O'Malley Wood was treasurer and Mrs WH Read was chair.
The Western Australian branch of the Women's Australian National Service established Wanslea in Perth, which is now Wanslea Family and Child Services. The New South Wales branches founded a sister organisation, Wanslea, in Bexley in the south-western suburbs of Sydney, in 1945.
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