This group photograph shows a number of ARP wardens wearing the bluette overalls and what appears to be Red Cross personnel. The Red Cross ambulance drivers are wearing the ARP Pattern 43 Women's Drivers Coat. Some have the ski cap as well.
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This parade shows at its head Charles Worthington, the ARP Controller and head of Leicester's CD services in 1942. He is wearing his RFC/RAF wings above his medal ribbon. This was officially banned under CD uniform regulations.
Lieutenant Charles Edward Worthington, CBE was born in in Leicester 1897 and was commissioned into the Royal Flying Corps in 1916 and served as a fighter pilot on the Western Front. He is credited for five aerial victories whilst serving with 87 Squadron (Sopwith Dolphin). He became a successful businessman in the family business and in 1931 was a joint founder of the Odeon Cinema franchise. During the second world war he was ARP controller for Leicester and and became the city's mayor in 1946. A nice group photograph of a gas decontamination squad in their oilskins and with gas capes attached to their helmets.
A common scene during the second world war twas the training of personnel for civil defence and ARP duties. This photograph shows a classroom of men donning their gas masks (all that is except the man at the back left...perhaps he left his on the 0732 to Orpington...)
Ministry of Home Security Air Raid Precautions School - Eastwood Park, Falfield, Gloucester6/2/2018 In 1936 the Civilian Anti Gas School (CAGS) was opened at Eastwood Park. Here people were trained to deal with various poison gases thought likely to be dropped in the event of war. During the second world war it became The Ministry of Home Security Air Raid Precautions School. Those that successfully passed the courses offered here gained an instructor's badge.
Post war the institution became a police training school and then in 1949 it reverted to a Civil Defence School. |
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