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Agenda papers including, amongst other things: - Leighton Buzzard First Aid Post;...

Catalogue reference: WW2 AR C/2/40

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Reference
WW2 AR C/2/40
Date
17 Apr 1940
Description

Agenda papers including, amongst other things:

- Leighton Buzzard First Aid Post;

- communications from Ministry of Home Security regarding: reports of fire by Wardens; issue of Operation & Training Memoranda; aids to movement of traffic; steel control; personal protection equipment for staff engaged in collecting and handling bodies of war victims and for food inspection Staffordshire;

- communications from Senior Regional Officer regarding: training of Rescue Party Leaders; Women's Voluntary Services for Civil Defence; co-operation with RAF; reports regarding food supplies; public shelter for 84 people at Tooley's premises, Leighton Buzzard; public air raid shelters in Kempston; Biggleswade Air Raid Precautions Headquarters;

- communications from Ministry of Health regarding: stretcher bearers at hospitals; notification of names of air raid casualties to general public; Clophill Sick Bay; billeting of evacuees on Red Cross members;

- billeting of evacuees on Red Cross and/or Air Raid Precautions personnel;

- air raid warning sirens in Bedford Borough;

- Air Raid Precautions equipment at Three Counties Asylum, Stotfold;

- air raid shelter at Barclay's Bank, Leighton Buzzard;

- mutual assistance of Civil Defence Service and RAF.

[ex W/ARPP 17]

Held by
Bedfordshire Archives & Records Service
Language
English
Immediate source of acquisition

acc. 6507

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/6803b4ec-9af1-431e-bd8f-fe931a9ae5ab/

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WW2 AR C

Air Raid Precautions, Committee Material

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Air Raid Precautions, Committee Material

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Agenda Papers

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Agenda papers including, amongst other things: - Leighton Buzzard First Aid Post;...