This wonderful portrait shows an ARP ambulance driver wearing the smart Pattern 43 driver's coat with the Pattern 45 ski hat hat.
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An interesting photograph of a group of WW2 ARP First Aid personnel with a Mobile First Aid Post. They appear to be wearing the gabardine coat with CD breast badge, a not often seen piece of CD uniform.
This often seen photo was a staged event and used in books and pamphlets advertising the need for Fire Guards. The lady is wearing a Zuckerman Civilian Protection helmet, the standard Fire Guard armband (probably yellow on blur), with what looks like a private purchase gas mask holder.
Women recruited for volunteer fire guard duties, who are fully trained in fire fighting techniques, putting the hose away in the portable trailer.
This photograph shows the Civil Defence Regional Commissioner for London, Sir Ernest Gowers inspecting the poison indicator stick of an anti-gas squad. The wooden stick had special paper attached to the end from which the type of gas could be identified.
Correction: the photo shows Admiral ERG Evans, Regional Commissioner for London Civil Defence inspecting gas detection workers during his visit to Paddington, London in October 1939. Evans preceded Gowers. |
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