National Motor Volunteers Car Badge

National Motor Volunteers. 122 mm (4.5") x 98 mm (4") Nickle Silver on brass The MVC was formed in London in early 1916 primarily to transport soldiers arriving in London at night after the buses and Underground had stopped. A year later it became a nation-wide organisation and part of the Volunteer Training Corps (later Volunteer Force) - the WW1 equivalent of the Home Guard. It was now used for transporting Volunteer battalions, evacuating hospitals in the event of an emergency and assisting in the aftermath of air raids. The National Motor Volunteers, which operated as a separate formation within the Volunteer Training Corps, the Great Wars equivalent of the Home Guard, were actually formed in 1915 and the Newcastle Squadron, National Motor Volunteers were formed in September 1915. See next badge