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1 - Emergency Committee draft minute book
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1 - Home Security Circular No.122/42. Standards of Accommodation and Sleeping Facilities at Civil Defence and Fire Guard Depots
2 - Traders Mutual Assistance and Salvage Schemes. Board of Trade Memorandum on Retailers Mutual Assistance Schemes and Ministry of Home Security Circular No.200/42
3 - Emergency Feeding
4 - Provision of Food to part0time unpaid Volunteers at Exercises
5 - Civil Defence General Services. Civil Defence Rank Markings of Members enrolled as List (ii) Home Guards
6 - Civil Defence Artists' Exhibition
7 - Interchange of Visits between Controllers, Sub-Controllers etc
8 - Emergency Feeding
9 - Fire Prevention in Corn Growing Areas
10 - Home Security Circular 23/43
11 - Civil Defence Services. Long Service Badges
12 - Dissemination of Messages by Snowball
13 - Carrying of oilskin anti-gas clothing and respirators by Civil Defence Services
14 - Direction of persons into part-time Civil Defence Services
15 - Controller's Conference
16 - Controller's Conference
17 - Report and Control Centre Services-Employment of Paid Members on Extended Duties
18 - Home Security Circular No.16/43. Amalgamation of Rescue and First Aid Parties
19 - Liaison with the L.N.E. and L.M.S. Railway Companies
20 - Combined Civil and Military TEWT. Haverhill-7 March 1943
21 - Addendum to L.A. Circular No.9/43 Home Security Circular 16/43 Amalgamation of Rescue and First Aid Parties
22 - Regional Technical Intelligence Officer
23 - Additional Vehicles for the Rescue Service
24 - Decentralisation of Control
25 - Circulation of Instructions
26 - Loss of, or damage to, salvaged furniture and household effects
27 - Control of Rubber Tyres
28 - Prior Estimates of costs of repairs to Civil Defence Vehicles
29 - Amalgamation of Rescue and First Aid Party Services
30 - Amalgamation of Rescue and First Aid Party Services
31 - Further releases of whole-time Civil Defence Personnel
32 - Invasion Committees. Civil and Military Liaison
33 - The Civil Defence Reserve. Security Consideration
34 - 6 Civil Defence Rescue Service-Authorised Establishments
35 - Telephone Service in emergency
36 - Welfare Conference
37 - Use of Surface Shelters as Incendiary Bomb Huts
38 - Messengers for the Fire Guard Services (2)
39 - 1. Twelfth Exhibition by Civil Defence Artists. 2. Exhibitions of Arts and Crafts
40 - Prescription policy in regard to Fire Prevention
41 - Unit Establishments of the new Rescue Service
42 - Welfare Conference
43 - Distribution of ankle socks, stockings, pullovers, slacks and trousers by the Central Comforts Fund
44 - Message from Regional Commissioner re re-siting of depots after a raid
45 - First Anniversary of the Home Guard
46 - Enemy Air-borne and Sea-borne Raids
47 - Mobile Canteens. County Pool Organisers
48 - Control of Designated Service Certificates for certain Services
49 - Amalgamation of Rescue and First Aid Party Services
50 - National Civil Defence Safe Driving Award
51 - Assistance by members of the Civil Defence (General) Services in Food Production
52 - Vehicles for Rescue Service. Use of Mobile Gas Cleansing Unit Lorries
53 - Introduction of numbered circulars
54 - Use of Volunteer Car Pools after air raids
55 - Incendiary Bomb Instructional Diagram
56 - Emergency Wireless Communications
57 - The effect on the Rescue Service of call-up of members engaged in the Building and Civil Engineering Trades
58 - Static Water Tanks for replenishing Stirrup Pump Buckets
59 - 1. Civil Defence Artists Exhibition of Arts and Crafts. 2. Fourteenth Exhibition by Civil Defence Artists
60 - Letter from Regional Commissioner re reporting of Air Raid Incidents
61 - Summer Holiday Courses for Women Leaders of Physical Recreation organised by the Central Council of Recreative Physical Training
62 - Welfare Conference
63 - Reporting of Air Raid Incidents
64 - Refresher Course, Bomb Reconnaissance Officers
65 - Unexploded Hand Grenades etc
66 - Refresher Course, Bomb Reconnaissance Officers
67 - Regional Communications Conference
68 - Ministry of Home Security Schools. Programme of Courses, July-November 1943
69 - New Rescue Party Vehicles. Original Tyre Equipment and Oversizing
70 - New Rescue Party Vehicles. Tyre Inflation Figures
71 - Canvas Shoes with Rag Waste Soles for the Civil Defence Services
72 - Town Reconstruction Committees
73 - Operational Employment of Personnel Qualified in Bomb Reconnaissance
74 - Refresher Course, Bomb Reconnaissance Officers
75 - Small Anti-Personnel Bombs
76 - Reports of First Bomb and Flare
77 - Assistance by the W.V.S. Housewives Service in the reporting of air raid damage
78 - Ambulance and Sitting Case Cars
79 - Civil Defence Messenger Service Establishment
80 - Distribution of Available Man Power for Direction to part-time Civil Defence Service
81 - Civil Defence and the Home Guard
82 - Monthly Casualty Returns
83 - Shelter and Civil Defence Works
84 - Consolidated Instructions on the Disposal of Unexploded Bombs, Shells and Parachute Mines. Further amendments and additions
85 - Emergency Arrangements. Regional Commissioners Officer
86 - Research and Experiments Department-Regional Technical Intelligence Officer
87 - Notes on Recent Raids
88 - Transfer of the Regional Training School from Southend-on-Sea to Newton Manor
89 - Control of Rubber Tyres
90 - Issue of Transfer of replicas of Emergency Labels
91 - Emergency News Bulletins
92 - Inspection of Respirators
93 - Clearance of Debris and repair of Services of Public Utility Undertakings
94 - Small Anti-Personnel Bombs
95 - Civil Defence and R.A.F. Day
96 - Balloon Devices
97 - Regional Welfare Conference
98 - Vehicles for Civil Defence Rescue Services
99 - Reporting of Air Raid Incidents
100 - Manning of Alterations Control Centre
101 - Regional Welfare
102 - Instructions for reporting the use, or Suspected use of poison gas by the enemy
103 - Responsibility for the sounding of Handbells to indicate the All Clear
104 - Measures to provide for deficiency of strength in wood treatment squads
105 - Fourteenth Exhibition of Civil Defence Artists
106 - Air Raid Casualty Survey
107 - Military Assistance
108 - New Types of Energy Weapons
109 - Black Stripe
110 - Directions 1941 Nos. 27-35
111 - Glider Targets
112 - Siren Faults, Failures etc
113 - Training of Local Instructors-L.A.R.P.
114 - Battle of Britain Sunday
115 - Part-time duty in the Wardens service
116 - Military and Civil Liaison
117 - Small Anti-Personnel Bombs
118 - Army U.X.B. Film
119 - Lessons from Recent Raids
120 - Attendance of Doctors at Incidents
121 - Fighter Priority Observation Posts
122 - Siren Faults, Failures etc
123 - 1. Civil Defence Artists Exhibition of Arts and Crafts. 2. Sixteenth Exhibition by Civil Defence Artists
124 - Bomb Reconnaissance Officers
125 - Key Point Reporting
126 - Demonstration of Proprietary Fire Extinguishing Preparations
127 - Military Assistance after Air Raids
128 - Objects dropped from the Air-Crows Feet
129 - Small Anti-Personnel Bombs
130 - Regional Welfare
131 - Eastern Regional Column id the Civil Defence Reserve
132 - Relaxation of the Wakeful Watch. Daily commencement of the First Guard Plan during the winter months
133 - Control of Rubber Tyres. Applications in respect of crown owned vehicles
134 - Residence Ban
135 - Training Officers
136 - District Insurance Committees-Board of Trade, salvage administration
137 - Refresher Courses for Civil Defence and Police Bomb Reconnaissance Officers
138 - Sleeping bags for women, Civil Defence Services
139 - Demolition Clearance and Post Raid Salvage
140 - Objects dropped from the air
141 - Training of Wardens in the Elementary Principles of Rescue Work
142 - Civil Defence duty on Christmas Day
143 - Christmas message from Regional Commissioner
144 - Reporting of unexploded bombs-decentralisation amendment to Consolidated Instructions
145 - Whole-time paid Civil Defence Personnel from Civil Defence Stats 6-revised
146 - Training of Wardens in the Elementary Principles of Rescue Work
147 - Rescue Vehicles Drivers and Driving Instructions
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6 - Intensive bombing and invasion circulars
7 - Civil defence: Manual of basic training
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5 - Register of air raid incidents
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