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Agenda papers including, amongst other things: - communications from Ministry of...

Catalogue reference: WW2 AR C/2/69

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Reference
WW2 AR C/2/69
Date
16 Oct 1940
Description

Agenda papers including, amongst other things:

- communications from Ministry of Home Security regarding: pay of wholetime volunteers;

- communications from Senior Regional Officer regarding: remote control of sirens; annual leave for volunteers; parachute mines; disposal of unexploded parachute mines; notification and recording of air raid; spotters on factory buildings; auxiliary petrol tanks jettisoned from German aircraft; defences against air raids; provision of Air Raid Precautions Office and Store at Girls Modern School, Bedford; use of 13 Broadway, Bedford as public shelter; public shelters in Cranfield; domestic surface shelters in Biggleswade and Bedford;

- communications from Ministry of Health regarding: evacuation of mothers and children; purity of water supplies; billeting of mothers before and after confinement; provision of Ivy Leaf Club, Langford as treatment room for patients of Mobile Unit; use of Air Raid Precautions ambulances for non Civil Defence purposes;

- numbers of air raid casualties;

- emergency plans by London Branch of Musicians' Union on emergency plans to provide entertainment for the people and work for unemployed musicians;

- air raid shelters near railway arches;

- agitation for public air raid shelters in Aspley Guise.

[ex W/ARPP 25]

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

acc. 6515

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/747d633a-4644-4d58-958f-269c815e55c3/

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WW2 AR C

Air Raid Precautions, Committee Material

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Agenda Papers

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Agenda papers including, amongst other things: - communications from Ministry of...