wardens

• Air Raid Warden's Service

  Created in 1937 to recruit air raid wardens
• 2,200,000 people became air wardens by 1938
• During the Czech crisis an additional 500,000 people joined the Air Raid Wardens Service
• Air Raid Precautions (ARP) + the Civil Defence


  New names given to the ARWS
• 15 million people part of the service by September 1939
• One in six wardens were women
• Roles of a warden

  • Enforce the 'blackout'
  • Register all people in their sector
  • Help people to commundi shelters
  • Carry out first aid
  • Sound Sirens during an air attack
• Most wardens


  Volunteers and therefore not paid, some full time and paid
• Wardens were identifiable by

  • Steel helmets, wellington boots and armband
  • Not issued uniforms