HSW
joined the ARP
well before the outbreak of the Second World War, and became a qualified Air Raid Warden.
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking, 1970.
374
Occupation
Margaret Kennedy
MK
turned her family home at 27 Campden Hill Square into the Air Raid
Station for the local sector.
Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann, 1983.
150
Occupation
Margery Allingham
At the time of the Munich crisis, MA
faced the prospect of her house becoming a temporary sanatorium for doubtful looking refugees, the main A.R.P. post for eight miles and a temporary decontamination station.
qtd. in
Martin, Richard, 1934 -. Ink in Her Blood: The Life and Crime Fiction of Margery Allingham. UMI Research Press, 1988.
97
Occupation
Lady Cynthia Asquith
Meanwhile she prepared to receive evacuees from London, and volunteered for first aid work, nursing, and night shifts with the ARP (Air Raid Precaution)
.
Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf, 1978.
159
Occupation
T. S. Eliot
In London during the blitz, Eliot served, like so many others, as an ARP
or air-raid warden, until the loss of two nights' sleep each week made it impossible for him to function effectively in...
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25 September 1938: The ARP (Air Raid Precaution) forces were...
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25 September 1938
The ARP (Air Raid Precaution
) forces were mobilised in Britain against the threat of war.
Martin, Richard, 1934 -. Ink in Her Blood: The Life and Crime Fiction of Margery Allingham. UMI Research Press, 1988.