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Two Civil Defence volunteers (possibly senior wardens) pose in their CD-issued battledress blouse and trousers. As per the majority of serving members in the Civil Defence General Services their BDs feature minimal insignia - just rank chevrons, CD breast badge and for one gent, a whistle lanyard. The gentleman on the right may be a First War War veteran going by the way he has dine the collar up on his blouse.  Blackpool Civil Defence Personnel
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A photograph of a certain Raymond Kerin wearing his civil defence blouse with Messenger shoulder titles and CD breast badge. Unusual colour lanyard and definitely not the white or gold usually seen. The photo is dated 1943 and taken in Norwich.  Young Civil Defence Messenger Norwich 1943 An extremely rare Borough of Andover ARP Rescue & Demolition breast badge. Roughly the same size as a standard ARP breast badge, the accompanying photo shows it worn above this badge. The badges and photo also came with the Hampshire titles that were often sewn to the epaulettes. Visitors to the blog are often kind enough to identify the vehicles in photos. If you know the make and model of the vehicle in the photo, please drop me a message.  Extremely Rare Andover Demolition & Rescue Badge  Photo of a Borough of Andover Demolition & Rescue Squad Two nice period photos of an Air Raid Warden from Bushey (close to Watford in Hertfordshire). Looks like he has used a small piece of material on his beret to hold the ARP badge. Standard uniform for a warden with just shoulder titles, breast badge, area marking and war service chevrons.  Bushey Air Raid Warden Photograph 1  Bushey Air Raid Warden Photograph 2 Interesting portrait of an air raid warden from the London borough of Lambeth in his bluette overalls. He appears to be wearing a single red rank insignia on his sleeve, minus the usual red diamond. He has his white helmet slung under his arm, so we cannot see the full details of the markings. A single red bar in London could be either a Head Warden or Post Warden (perhaps with the lack of the diamond, he is the latter).  Lambeth ARP Warden Wearing Bluette Overalls |
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