Women's Overseas Service League. Portland branch.

The Women's Overseas Service League was a national women's organization founded in 1921 to "keep alive the spirit that prompted overseas service; to maintain the ties of comradeship born of that service and to assist and further any patriotic work; to inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the community, state, and nation; to work for the welfare of the armed services; to assist, in any way in our power, the men and women who served and were wounded or incapacitated in the service of their country; to foster and promote friendship and understanding between the United States and all other Nations of the World."

From the guide to the Women's Overseas Service League records, 1922-1991, (Oregon Historical Society Research Library)

The Women's Overseas Service League was a national women's organization founded in 1921 to "keep alive the spirit that prompted overseas service; to maintain the ties of comradeship born of that service and to assist and further any patriotic work; to inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the community, state, and nation; to work for the welfare of the armed services; to assist, in any way in our power, the men and women who served and were wounded or incapacitated in the service of their country; to foster and promote friendship and understanding between the United States and all other Nations of the World."

The Portland chapter was formed in 1923.

From the description of Women's Overseas Service League records [manuscript], 1922-1991. (Oregon Historical Society Research Library). WorldCat record id: 743301975