This group photo of wrens from King;s Lynn shows a myriad of ways to wear the black wool Civil Defence beret. Whereas the army and RAF had regulations concerning the wearing of headwear, within the Civil Defence Services it appears there was a great deal of lassitude.
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Here's a nice shot of a group of wardens with a white helmet Post Warden displaying the three yellow chevrons and star above. Cannot quite make out what it says on the area marking, alas. I would assume that the badge on his right breast pocket is the St John Ambulance Association badge.
The photograph below shows Admiral Evans inspecting a Light Rescue squad in Lewisham. Between the Admiral and the squad leader is a high ranking regional Civil Defence officer - most likely the Regional Commissioner. He is wearing a tailored battledress with red gorgets to the collars as well as the special breast badge worn by regional staff.
The rescue squad leader and several of his fellow men are wearing the austerity pattern battledress with exposed buttons (known as bachelor buttons these are revolving shank buttons held on by small circular clips). The area badge for Lewisham does not have a border and all of the men are wearing side caps. The WVS provided an immense amount of support during the second world war. In the back row of this photo are two WVS volunteers amongst Home Guard and regular army.
From the council archives this photo shows a number of CD personnel during a civic parade. The interesting points are that one fellow (third from right) appears to have used a CD breast badge as a beret badge. Leicester also had different colour triangles for each city in the county on the upper arm.
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