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

Catalogue reference: WW2 AR C/2/70

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Reference
WW2 AR C/2/70
Date
23 Oct 1940
Description

Agenda papers including, amongst other things:

- communications from Ministry of Home Security regarding: co-operation with churches; shelters;

- communications from Senior Regional Officer regarding: persons homeless as a result of air raids; provision of air raid shelters; Rescue Parties; incendiary bombs; transport of volunteer casualties - Combined Exercise; provision of basement shelter in Leighton Buzzard Market Square; use of 113 West Street, Dunstable and 3 underground vaults and sheds at Agricultural Engineering Company in Leighton Buzzard High Street as Wardens' Posts; public shelters at Cranfield;

- communications from Ministry of Health regarding: deaths due to war operations; emergency medical service; persons rendered homeless by enemy attack; Aspley Heath Convalescent Home;

- numbers of air raid casualties;

- provision of shelters at Yielden;

- use of shelters at Northfields School by members of the public;

- incendiary bomb at rear of Totternhoe Church of England School;

- alternative Control Room at 13 Kimbolton Avenue, Bedford.

[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/f8b9a394-637d-4a38-ac33-ac5b1c75e6e4/

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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...