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I always enjoy adding re-enactors to the site and here's a great depiction of an early-war air raid warden from Wycombe. He's been issued with a black helmet with a white ‘W’, a Civil Defence armband and a civilian duty respirator. On his belt, he's carrying a hooded blackout lamp. To learn more, see Britain's Darkest Hour Living History Group (redirects to a Facebook page). If you're a CD/ARP re-enactor and have a period-looking photo you'd like to appear on this blog, please drop me an email.  Early-War Air Raid Warden Re-enactor © D Blyth
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The island of Malta was one of the most intensively bombed areas during the war. The Luftwaffe and the Regia Aeronautica flew a total of 3,000 bombing raids, dropping 6,700 tons of bombs on the Grand Harbour area alone over two years. There's an excellent overview of the Siege of Malta on Wikipedia. To protect the population Malta created its own Air Raid Precautions (and issued a specific ARP badge with "MALTA" scroll). Below is a photo of Maltese ARP re-enactor Louise-Ann and her display.  Maltese ARP Re-enactor © Silvio Pace I really should post more images of re-enactors as the effort undertaken by many on getting their impressions spot on is immense. Here we have three chaps at an event in the north east of England. People are often tempted to have a lot of insignia (myself included) on their battledress but these fellows have just the basic insignia, which is seen on a lot of period photos, namely the CD or ARP breast badge, area title and shoulder title.  Three Civil Defence Re-enactors At Chatham Dockyard's Salute to the '40s they have a blitzed house on show. It's the perfect place for ARP and Civil Defence re-enactors to get a great period looking photo. The re-enactor here is Chris; he has aided me immensely this year with information about ARP and Civil Defence Services during WW2.  WW2 ARP Warden Re-enactor at Chatham Dockyard 2018 |
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