Date:1941 - 1945 (c.)
Description:Air Raid Precaution personnel outside the Old Vicarage, Cheddleton. The wearing of battledress and berets date this photograph from 1941 onwards. Seated in the middle row, to the left of the lady, 5th and 6th from the left is the Vicar, Rev. William Gaisford Burgis and his wife, Marion. The man on the extreme right is probably the curate. From 1938 all local authorities were compelled to set up their own A.R.P. Service together with messengers, ambulance drivers, rescue parties, and liaison with police and fire brigades. Most A.R.P. wardens were part-time volunteers whose duties included enforcing black-out regulations, reporting bombing incidents, issuing gas masks, managing air-raid siren usage and directing people to bomb shelters. Women were involved though the Women's Voluntary Service (W.V.S.). In 1941 its title officially became The Civil Defence Service. They were stood-down in 1945.
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Donor ref:P2023.014.0444 (37/50207)
Source: Staffordshire Museum Service
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