WW2/AR/C2/95

Agenda papers including, amongst other things: - ambulances received from British Red Cross Society; - resignation of Arthur Basen as Air Raid Precautions Officer & Sub-Controller of Central Area; - Casualty Services training scheme; - communications from Senior Regional Officer regarding public shelters on roadway verge, Harrowden Road, and plot of land adjacent to 91 Harrowden Road, Bedford; painting Air Raid Precautions vehicles in standard colour; transfer of Bedford Borough Air Raid Precautions offices to a new location; local Civil Defence training facilities for military personnel; gas exercises; casualty returns; demolition by explosives; Air Raid Wardens - deferment arrangements for whole time personnel ; Rescue Parties premature ceasing of work; Decontamination Squads; use of Air Raid Precautions ambulances for Home Guard casualties; - communications from Ministry of Health regarding: First Aid Post at St.Mary's Methodist Church schoolroom, Cauldwell Street, Bedford; calling up of women for National Service; medical attendance in public air raid shelters; deaths amongst transferred sick etc.; accommodation for transferred war workers and families; distribution of gifts of duty free tobacco and chocolate to sick and wounded service personnel at St.Peter's Emergency Hospital, Bedford; First Aid Post at Methodist Schoolroom, Bedford Road, Kempston; tanks for fire fighting at St.Peter's Hospital, Bedford; - appointment of County Social Welfare Officer; - secondment of police personnel for Air Raid Precautions; - compensation rent for Sandy Baptist Schoolroom; - Woburn Mobile Unit; - proposed delegation of functions regarding public shelters; - Air Raid Precautions in Wootton; - Wardens' Post at 110 Dunstable Street, Ampthill; - Wardens' Post at 32 Kingsbury Avenue, Dunstable; - Scheme for Beds & Hunts Sub-Area assistance by military to civil powers in the event of an air raid in Dunstable; - proposed use of Odell Mansion as Air Raid Precautions store; - accommodation for refugees from air attack. [ex W/ARPP 33]

23 Apr 1941

From: 1941 To: 1941

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Red Cross Society, Air Raid Precautions, civil defence, gas, ambulances, Home Guard, Ministry of Health, Bedford St.Peter's Hospital, refugees, air raids over UK, BEDFORD, KEMPSTON, SANDY, WOOTTON, WOBURN, AMPTHILL, DUNSTABLE, ODELL, Bedford Harrowden Road, Bedford Cauldwell Street, Kempston Bedford Road, Ampthill Dunstable Street, Dunstable Kingsbury Avenue