We had a very positive response to the Lunchtime Lecture last Tuesday (13 Nov). It was counted that about 90 people attended. The talk was given to coincide with Remembrance Day and for us to announce the release of the first wave of records.
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These are:
C TSCD – City Engineers Civil Defence Records
C TSWD – City Engineers War Damage Records
C TYG – Recommendations for acknowledgements and Gallantry awards
C TCVC – Victory Celebrations (Special) Committee
Also, we released 3500 names from the Civil Defence personnel cards.
The series released in their entirety are:
C TYR/5 Ambulance Driver personnel cards
C TYR/6 First Aid Service personnel cards
C TYR/7 First Aid Attendant personnel cards
C TYR/8 Decontamination of Personnel personnel cards
C TYR/10 Highways personnel cards
C TYR/11 Transport Driver personnel cards
C TYR/12 Messenger personnel cards
C TYR/13 Clerk personnel cards
C TYR/14 Office personnel cards
C TYR/15 Storekeeper personnel cards
C TYR/16 Sewers personnel cards
C TYR/17 Dresser personnel cards
Other series are still being indexed but have been partially released, these are:
C TYR/1 for surnames beginning with ‘A’
C TYR/2 for surnames beginning with ‘A’ to ‘F’
C TYR/3 for surnames beginning with ‘A’ to ‘F’
C TYR/9 for surnames beginning with ‘A’ to ‘G’
I’d like to take this opportunity to once again than the volunteers for their time and effort put into this.
You can find out more about the records here:
We have updated the Second World War source guide to include these records and a PDF can be downloaded here:
We received a lot of media coverage for the release of these records with appearances on Calendar and Look North. BBC Humberside Online put together an article based on the Look North and both the Hull Daily Mail and The Yorkshire Post produced articles. See the links below.
