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Guide to World War 2 Records:Civil Defence

Berkshire Record Office
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Reading
RG1 6AF

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Civil Defence Operation

Berkshire County Council: Emergency Committee for Civil Defence minutes 1939-1948 (C/CL/C3/19/1).
County Defence and Invasion Committees minutes 1941-1943
(C/CL/C3/20).
Berkshire War Agricultural Committee papers 1940s (D/EX734/31-33).

Berkshire : Civil Defence Special Committee of Thames Conservancy minutes 1939-1946 (D/TC311-313).

Abingdon Rural District: Emergency Committee minutes 1939-1946
(RD/A/CB1/7-11).

Bradfield Rural District: Emergency Committee reports in Rural District Council minutes 1939-1945 (RD/B/CA1/34-40).

Cookham Rural District: Emergency Committee reports in the Rural District Council Finance and General Purposes Committee minutes
1938-1948 (RD/C/CB2/4-6).
Rural District Council Minutes also contain information on provision 1938-1947 (RD/C/CA1/17-18).

Easthampstead Rural District: Emergency Committee minutes
1940-1945 (RD/E/CB16/1).

Faringdon Rural District: Emergency Committee minutes 1939-1946
(RD/F/CB4/1-3).

Hungerford Rural District: Emergency Committee minutes 1939-1945
(RD/H/CA1/10-12).

Maidenhead: Civil Defence Sub-Committee (formerly the ARP Committee) minutes 1941-1945 (M/AC2/3/2).

Newbury: Emergency Committee minutes 1939-1945 (N/AC2/2/6,
N/AC2/19/2-10)

Newbury Rural District: Some information on the Emergency Committee in the Rural District Council minutes 1939 (RD/N/CA1/10).

Reading: Emergency Committee for Civil Defence minutes 1939-1942, later Emergency and Invasion Committee minutes 1942-1944
(R/AC2/20/1-6).

Wallingford : Emergency Committee minutes 1939-1944
(W/AC2/2/8-9).

Wallingford Rural District: Rural District Council minutes 1939-1944 (RD/W/CA1/19-20).

Wantage: Emergency Committee reports in the Urban District Council minutes 1937-1946 (UD/WT/CA1/8-9).

Wantage Rural District: Emergency Committee reports in the Rural District Council Minutes 1939-1945 (RD/WT/CA1/13-15).

Windsor Rural District: Emergency Committee minutes 1939-1945
(RD/WI/CB1/1, RD/WI/CA1/23-24, 26).

Wokingham: Register of properties damaged by enemy action
1940-1943 (WO/SA4/2).

Wokingham Rural District: Emergency Committee minutes 1939-1940
(RD/WO/CB17/1), Emergency Committee minutes 1941-1942
(RD/WO/CB26/3).

Civil Defence Local Information
The amount of information contained in these records can vary.

Ashampstead: Local Defence (later Invasion) Committee minutes, papers and War Book 1941-1944 (CPC8/18/3).

Beenham: Records of the Local Defence Committee, including War Book 1938-1944 (D/EX847/1).

Combe: War Book of the Local Defence Committee 1942
(D/P197/28/6).

Compton: Local Defence / Invasion Committee minutes, papers and War Book 1941-1944 (CPC41/18/12-15).

Crowthorne: Some information on the Local Invasion Committee in the Civil Parish Council minutes 1943 (CPC102B/1/2).

Pangbourne: Some information on the War Emergency Committee in the Civil Parish Council minutes 1941 (CPC91/2/1).

Reading: Papers of a Civil Defence Officer in Reading 1940-1942
(D/EX1370/1/1-14, 2/1-9, 3/1-2).

Sandhurst: Civil Parish Council minutes include some information on the Local Committee for Civil Defence 1941 (CPC102/1/3).

Shinfield: List of members of the Emergency Committee in the Civil Parish Council minutes 1940, 1944 (CPC110/1/5).

Streatley: Civil Parish Council minutes 1941 (CPC122/1/2).

Sunningdale: War Book of the Local Defence Committee (with Sunninghill) 1942-1944 (CPC126/18/4).
Civil Parish Council minutes 1941 (CPC150B/1/2).

Sunninghill: War Book of the Local Defence Committee (with Sunningdale) 1942-1944 (CPC126/18/4).

Thatcham: Civil Parish Council minutes 1941-1942 (CPC130/1/4).

Waltham St Lawrence: Civil Parish Council minutes include some information on the Local Defence Committee and the Home Guard 1941 (CPC141/1/2).

Wargrave: Discussion on comforts for Civil Defence workers in Civil Parish Council minutes 1941 (CPC145/1/4).

West Hendred: Some information on the Local Defence Committee in the Civil Parish Council minutes 1941 (CPC67/1/1).

Winkfield: Civil Parish Council minutes include some information on the Emergency Committee 1940-1945 (CPC151/1/2).

This guide is correct as of January 2006. Please contact the Berkshire Record Office to request a copy of the most up-to-date version.

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