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A group portrait of CD personnel dated 1944. Apart from a couple of Incident Officer sleeve badges, there's not a lot of insignia on show and not a single first aid badge on the right pocket of any of the BDs. There's writing on the rear, but the handwriting is difficult to decipher (looks almost Tolkienesque). I can make out 'Whitworth', slash something I cannot work out (Cooper?), then 'Fairy' on the first line, followed by various names and finally 'Headquarters' and 'Messengers' at the end, with something else I cannot make out on the bottom line (Past & Present?).  Group Photograph of Civil Defence Personnel  Group Photograph of Civil Defence Personnel rear
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Several towns operated Civil Defence Cadet Corps, with Liverpool, Nottingham, and Birmingham being the best-known examples. The cadets were trained in ARP measures and those over 16 could volunteer with the local Civil Defence Services. Apart from Liverpool, limited information is available about these cadet corps. If you have any more details or photos, please send them via the Contact page. The Dudley cadets below, sporting the rather fetching headwear, are not wearing standard CD uniforms. They appear to be general use overalls and coats to which the ARP breast badge has been attached. The photo has been censored.  Dudley Civil Defence Cadets in 1941 © Black Country History  Civil Defence "C.D. Cadet Corps" shoulder title  Liverpool Civil Defence Cadet (LCDC)  Civil Defence Cadet Corps Nottingham badge UPDATE: now confirmed to be a post-war Civil Defence Corps form. A, B and C are for Atomic, Biological and Chemical. GZ may be for Gas/Ground Zone. MFAU is for Mobile First Aid Unit, a term used by the Civil Defence Corps. Some interesting documents have appeared for sale on eBay. Among the various documents is this Civil Defence Report Form Control Centre Counterpart CDF 2 & 3. An accompanying document, used for training lectures, details the use of the form. The seller also has a selection of post-war Civil Defence Corps documentation, and I wasn't entirely sure at first if it was a wartime document. After reviewing the form and the corresponding lecture notes, it looks to be from the Second World War (nothing on here about radiation etc), but I would be interested in the opinions of others. Most wartime documents tend to have, in tiny print in the gutter at the bottom, a series of printer's marks that usually include a month and year (for example, 3/44), but this form doesn't have one. A couple of unknown items you perhaps can assist with:
 Civil Defence Report Form Control Centre Counterpart CDF2 / CDF3  Lecture notes referring to Civil Defence Report Form CDF 2 and 3 A visitor to the site is looking for details of the size and bracket of the reflector fitted to an Emergency Carbide Incident Lamp. If you happen to have one of these lamps, could you use the contact page to email me the dimensions and photos of the bracket? UPDATE: This has now been sorted.  Emergency Carbide Incident Lamp Reflector The booklet entitled Front Line 1940-1941 The Official Story of the Civil Defence of Britain, which was published by HMSO in 1942, is often available for sale in both hardback and soft cover versions. However, I'd not encountered this large-format version before today. The 24 prints are A4-sized.
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