The Latest Additions to the Civil Defence Items in my Collection.

The Latest Additions to the Civil Defence Items in my Collection.

 

A very small (15mm high) lapel button hole badge for the “C.D.A”, the National Federation of Civil Defence Associations. 

 

 

A Police War Duties handbook, dated 1965. Marked as “restricted” and “This manual should not be shown to anyone outside the Police service”. Most were handed back to be destroyed as ordered but some survived in archives and at the back of cupboards. This one is stamped ”Chief Constable’s Office, County Borough, St. Helens, 1966 ” (Merseyside).

It covers the organisation of the Civil Defence services, the effects of nuclear weapons & radiation, the organisation of the Police & Police Mobile Columns in civil and wartime emergencies and reporting & radiological monitoring procedures.

 

A Southern Electricity Board copy of “British Electricity Civil Defence- Basic General Training Handbook” booklet from 1954.  Apart the section on Atomic Warfare, it is very much a World War Two perspective detailing V2, incendiary & gas bomb attacks.