Air Raid Wardens

• The government was keen to recruit people to serve as air raid wardens. By September 1939, 1.5mn people were in the Air Raid Precautions.
• Air raid warden role:

  • To enforce the blackout
  • To sound sirens during an air attack
  • To help people to communal shelters, and check on people who had their own shelter
  • To carry out first aid, put out small fires and co-ordinate other emergency services once a bombing raid was over