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members aged between 14 and 18 as messengers or runners would take verbal or written messages from air raid wardens and deliver them to either the sector post or the control centre. Bombing would sometimes cut telephone lines and messengers performed an important role in giving the ARP services a
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were responsible for organising all the necessary ARP services in their areas. Although the standard procedures prescribed that the ideal warden should be at least 30 years old, men and women of all ages were wardens. In certain instances, given special needs of communities, even teenagers were
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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. Every local council was responsible for organising ARP wardens,
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December 1940, the Fire Watcher scheme was introduced in January 1941. All buildings in certain areas had to have a 24-hour watch kept. In the event of fire these fire watchers could call on the rescue services and ensure they could access the building to deal with incidents.
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to reflect the wider range of roles it then encompassed. During the war almost 7,000 Civil
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wardens. The role of ARP was open to both men and women but only men could serve in the gas contamination (teams that dealt with chemical and gas bombs), heavy and light rescue and demolition services.
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set up a subcommittee to look at what measure could be taken to protect the civil population from aerial attack. The new committee, known as Air Raid
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of September 1938 another 500,000 had enrolled). After the
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Civil Defence: From the First World War to the Cold War
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demonstrates this. The first ARP warden to receive the
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Civil Defence training exercise in Fulham, London, 1942
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