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Title: Civil Defence Portsmouth 1941 [Go to resource]
Description: These photographs are probably of a Civil Defence exercise that took place countywide in October 1941 and involved the military Home Guard and regular and war reserve police. During the exercise Portsmouth was supposed to have suffered heavy casualties as the result of enemy action. Compulsory enrolment for the Civil Defence was introduced in Portsmouth on 30th July 1941 for men aged 18 - 60. Ref: The News, 27th October 1941. Format: image/jpeg License: http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 Rights holder: The News, Portsmouth Subjects: world war 2
exercise
firefighting
Royal Beach Hotel
civil defence
hotelTemporal: start=1941-01-01; Source: Sense of place SE Creator: The News, Portsmouth Identifier: http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... Language: en-GB Format: image/jpeg Go to resource More Like this...
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