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Air Raid Precautions (ARP) refers to a number of organisations and guidelines in the United Kingdom dedicated to the protection of civilians from the danger of air raids. Government consideration for air raid precautions increased in the 1920s and 30s, with the Raid Wardens' Service set up in 1937 to report on bombing incidents. [ 1 ]
An Act to postpone the investigation to be made under section ten of the Air Raid Precautions Act, 1937, until the year nineteen hundred and forty-one. Determination of Needs Act 1941 4 & 5 Geo. 6.
It was awarded for meritorious service in German air raid protection. It was open both to members of the Reichsluftschutzbund, the principal German air raid precautions organisation, and others involved in this work, including police, fire and emergency services. It was usually necessary to have at least four years service before an award could ...
The Civil Defence Act 1948 (12, 13 & 14 Geo. 6. c. 5) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom setting out legislation for civil defence procedures in the United Kingdom. It was repealed and replaced by the Civil Contingencies Act 2004.
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A central Home Security War Room in London collated information from 12 regional war rooms concerning air raids, casualties and where necessary the movement of civil defence personnel between regions. At its inception the ministry was organised in five divisions: Air Raid Precautions Department; Fire and Police Services Division
Established by the Home Office in 1935 as Air Raid Precautions (ARP), its name was officially changed to the Civil Defence Service (CD) in 1941. The Civil Defence Service included the ARP Wardens Service as well as firemen (initially the Auxiliary Fire Service (AFS) and latterly the National Fire Service (NFS)), fire watchers (later the Fire ...
Air Raid Precautions casualty services remained under separate control. The Emergency Hospital Service co-ordinated all the hospitals under the Ministry of Health; the hospitals themselves were still administered as in peacetime but the Ministry dictated the type of work they did, and the cost of performing it was paid in full to the voluntary ...