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A fine selection of Civil Defence-related insignia and papers for a Mr & Mrs Fenner based in Dover. Two styles of area marking are shown, the early red style for use on bluette overalls and the yellow-bordered example for battledress. I'm not sure about the DOVER shoulder titles; I'm unaware of any local authority issuing shoulder titles with the town's name. It would need period photographic evidence to back that assumption. Also included is the Royal Life Saving Society's Respiration Service badge, war service chevrons, CD breast and cap badges. There is also an Air Raid Precautions appointment card and a few other pieces of paperwork.  Dover-Based Civil Defence Insignia & Paper Ephemera
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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 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.
Thousands of postcards were made during the war that tied into the current events. There are dozens and dozens about the blackout and ARP. The below tickled my fancy...  Put That (Hitler) Light Out!!! WW2 Postcard An article from the front page of issue 13 of The Midnight Watch (the Broadsheet of Britain's Fire Guard and Civil Defence Workers). I look forward to seeing this device on the re-enacting scene this summer...  Device for Attacking Hidden Incendiary Bombs |
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