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SYNG/A/428
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Personal interests: Volunteers for Ionising Radiation (VIR), correspondence and circulars
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- 1986-1990 (Creation)
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VIR was established in 1986 by Sir Frederick Warner who wrote to Fellows of the Fellowship of Engineering and the Royal Society calling for volunteers over the age of 65 prepared to act in emergencies where there was a high level of ionising radiation