List of Manuals etc

  List of Manuals, Pamphlets, Handbooks, Pocket Books & Ephemera etc.
 
This is an ongoing project to list all the CDC and some 'Allied Services' training manuals etc produced. If anyone has others, please let me know and I'll add them to the list.Those in blue are already owned by the members of our group.

This list was last updated on 2/3/2025.


Manual of Civil Defence.

Volume 1.
Pamphlet No. 1 Nuclear Weapons (2nd ed. 30/11/1959)
Pamphlet No. 2 Radioactive Fallout. Provisional Scheme of Public Control (13/12/1956,1961)
The Hydrogen Bomb booklet (23/10/1957)

Volume 2.
Organisation of Civil Defence and Allied Services (in preparation in 1962)
[As far as I am aware, this was never produced]
 
Manual of Basic Training.

Volume 1.
Pamphlet No. 1 Ambulance Section (1951)
Pamphlet No. 2 Welfare Section (1952)
Pamphlet No. 2A Welfare Section - Emergency Feeding (1952)
Pamphlet No. 2B Welfare Section - Improvisation of Large Scale Cooking Equipment (1952)
Pamphlet No.3 Warden Section (1951) 
Pamphlet No. 4 Headquarters Section (1953)
Pamphlet No. 6 Organisation of Civil Defence and Allied Services (1952) 
Pamphlet No.8 Principles of Damage Control (1951)
Pamphlet No. 9 Reconnaissance and Reporting (1952)

Volume 2.
Pamphlet No. 1 Basic Chemical Warfare (1949/51)

Pamphlet No. 2 Basic Fire Fighting (1949/51)

Pamphlet No. 3 Basic First Aid (1949/50)


Pamphlet No. 4 Basic Rescue (1950)

Pamphlet No. 5 Basic Methods of Protection against High Explosive Missiles (23/2/1950)

Pamphlet No. 6 Atomic Warfare (18/12//1951)


Pamphlet No. 7 Biological Warfare (1955,1959)
 
Manuals.
First Aid (1950, reprinted 1954 with No.1 amendment, 1960)
Rescue (1951, reprinted 1952, 1960) 

Handbooks.
No.1 Wireless Instructions for Civil Defence (1952) Copy as PDF
No. 1 Line and Wireless Instruction (3/8/1960)
Amendment No.1 (6/11/1961)
No. 2 Field Cable Construction (2nd ed. 25/5/1959)
No. 3 Exercises and Studies (1953) (2nd ed. 8/6/1964)
No. 4 Elementary Fire Fighting (17/9/1957)
No. 5 Light Rescue (10/1/1958)
Amendment 1 (6/2/1962)
No. 6 First Aid (1958)
No. 7 Rescue (20/6/1960)
Amendment 1 (16/2/1965)
No. 8 Emergency Feeding (17/11/1960, reprinted 1961)
No. 9 Signals Office Practice (10/11/1960)  
Amendment No.1 (7/12/1961) 
No. 10 Advising the householder on protection against nuclear attack (15/1/1963) 

Pocket books.
No. 1 Elements of First Aid (1957)
No. 2 Military Support in Civil Defence (Restricted) (2nd ed. 23/11/1960)
No. 3 General Information (All Sections) (23/11/1960)
No. 4 Warden Section (1961)
No. 5 Rescue Section (1961)
No. 6 Welfare Section (1962)  [As far as I am aware, this was never produced]
No. 7 Ambulance and First Aid Section (1962)

Civil Defence Instructor's Notes.
Methods of Instruction (1962)
General Notes (1960, 22/2/1967)
Warden Section  (30/12/1960)
Amendment No.1 (2/12/1963)  
Amendment No.2 (19/8/1964)
Headquarters Section, Functional and Supplementary Notes (1960)
Amendment No.1 (7/12/1964) 
Signals Part 1 Signals Office and Wireless Operating Procedure (11/10/1960)
             Amendment No.1 (6/2/1962) 
             Part 2 Field Cable laying and Dispatch Riders (11/10/1960)
             Amendment No.1 (6/2/1962)
             Amendment No.2 (11/9/1964) 
             Part 3 Advanced Training (1961)
Rescue Section (15/11/1960)
Amendment No.1 (18/11/1964) 
Ambulance and First Aid Section (23/2/1961)
Welfare Part 1 Common Functional and Supplementary Notes (20/1/1961)
             Part 2 Emergency Feeding (20/1/1961)
             Part 3 Evacuation and Care of the Homeless (20/1/1961)

Manual for Scientific Intelligence Officers
Part II Detection and Identification of War Gases (Restricted) (11/3/1953, revised 1960)
Amendment 1 (23/3/1960)
Part III Operational Training Course (Sept. 1962)
Scientific Intelligence Officers Operational Data Book (Restricted) (12/8/1964)
Amendment 1 (22/2/1967)
Amendment 2 (22/2/1967)

Training Memoranda
No. 1 Training Plan (1949)
No.1 First Aid and Home Nursing (Not on sale)
No. 2 Warden Section of the CD Corps (1959)
No. 3 Control of CD Operations under Fall-out Conditions (30/9/1959, reprinted 1964)
No. 4 Clearance of Z zones by Road (1960) Amendment No. 1 (1961)  (Revised 16/9/1965)
No. 5 Strategic Reconnaissance in Damaged Areas (provisional) (28/11/1961)
No. 6 The Evacuation of Casualties (provisional) (1961, reprint 13/12/1962 & 1964)
No.7 Road Movement (provisional) (28/12/1962)
No.8 Deployment for Operations (1964, reprinted 5/1/1965)

Training Bulletins.

General
No. 1 Control of CD Operations in England and Wales (1958)
No. 2 Changes in the organisation of the Warden Section; Forward Medical Aid Units
          and the Movement of Casualties; Changes in the Training of Headquarters,
          Rescue and Ambulance and Casualty Collecting sections (1959)
No. 3 Introduction of form F.Sigs 52 and the Operational Reporting Code (1960)

Warden
No. 1 Revised Syllabus of Standard Training (1958)
No. 2 Syllabus of Advanced Training (1958)
No. 3 Syllabus for the Local Training and Local Requalification of Warden Section
          Instructors (1959)

Headquarters
No. 1 Intelligence and Operations Sub-section Syllabus of Advanced Training (1958)
No. 2 Intelligence and Operations Sub-section Syllabuses for the Standard Training
          of Volunteers and the Local Training and Requalification of Instructors (1959)
No. 3 Signals Sub-section Syllabuses for the Standard, Additional and Advanced Training  of Volunteers and the Local Training of Instructors (1961)
No.4 Scientific and Reconnaissance Sub-section syllabus of training for members of
         Reconnaissance Parties (in preparation in 1962)

Rescue
No. 1 Syllabus of Advanced Training (1958)
No. 2 Syllabuses for the Standard Training of Volunteers and the Local Training and
          Requalification of Instructors (1960)

Welfare
No. 1 Emergency Childbirth (1959)
No. 2 Syllabuses for the Standard, Additional and Advanced Training of Volunteers and the Local Training and Requalification of Instructors (1961)

Ambulance and First Aid
No. 1 Syllabuses for the Standard, Additional and Advanced Training of Volunteers and  the Local Training and Requalification of Instructors (1961)
 
Civil Defence Corps Training Syllabuses for Local Training
No. 1 Headquarters section - Intelligence and Operations Sub-section (1/11/1962)
No. 2 Headquarters section - Signals Sub-section (31/12/1962)
No. 3 Headquarters section - Scientific and Reconnaissance Sub-section (31/12/1962)
No. 4 Warden Section (3/12/1962)
|No. 5 Rescue Section (11/12/1962)
No. 6 Welfare Section (31/12/1962)
No. 7  Ambulance and First Aid Section (31/12/1962)
Amendment 1 (26/4/1963)
No.8   First Aid & Home Nursing. (1963)
 
Civil Defence Corps Training Syllabuses 
[NB this was the Final verson produced]
Volume  I - Training During A Four Year Engagement. (7/2/1967)
Volume II - First Aid & Home Nursing. (7/2/1967)
Volume III - Training for Senior Officers and Insructors; Training after Initial Four Year Engagement (7/2/1967)
Changes in the Civil Defence Corps (1967)

Locally Produced Newsletters, Journals, Pocket Books etc.
Civil Defence Volunteers Pocket Book, Middlesex Division (1962, 1965)

CD Bulletin, Nottinghamshire County Council. No.14 [Photocopy only] (Nov. 1957)
CD Bulletin, Nottinghamshire County Council. No.19 [Photocopy only] (Jan. 1959)

CDC Staffordshire Division, Quarterly Review Vol.2, No.3 (June, 1962)
CDC Staffordshire Division, Quarterly Review Vol.2, No.4 (October, 1962)
Staffordshire Division, Notes on CDC circular 18/1962 – Reorganisation of the Civil Defence Corps (July, 1962)
 
 Womens (Royal) Voluntary Service publications.

Leaflets.
A Simple Guide to the Care of Homeless People (2nd Ed. 1956)
General Information on Evacuation for Reception Areas (no date)
Information on Evacuation for Householders taking Unaccompanied Children (no date)
One-in-Five Talk C – Caring for a Sick Person Under Emergency Conditions (no date)

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