Information from over 10,000 personnel record cards have now been input and are available to search via our online catalogue.
We are releasing the following Civil Defence personnel cards records today:
C TYR/1 Warden Service personnel cards D-E
C TYR/2 Control and Report Centre personnel cards L-Z
C TYR/3 Cyclist Messenger Corps personnel cards Mc-Z
C TYR/4/1 Fire Guard Section personnel cards-men ’A’ only
C TYR/9 Rescue Party personnel cards T-Z
C TYR/18/4 Hull Corporation Fire Watcher’s ‘A’-‘E’
Warden Service
Other records we are releasing today include material relating to the Warden Service:
C TYW/1 Warden Service Organisational Records, 1938-1952
C TYW/2 Warden Service Records, c.1938-1947
C TYW/3 Material relating to Warden Post G, District 7, 1938-1945
C TYW/4 Administrative index cards, c.1941-1948
C TYW/5 Informational posters, c.1939-1945
C TYW/6 Maps, c.1938-1945
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Head Wardens of Central Division |
Air Raid Shelters
These records, created by the Town Clerk’s Department, include information regarding the location of communal air raid shelters and the names of owners/tenants in the streets/terraces that they served.
C TCY/4/1 Agreements for the Erection of Air Raid Shelters (Dec 1939-Feb 1941)
C TCY/4/2 Memorandum from the City Engineer to the Town Clerk regarding the Demolition of Civil Defence Structures (1946-1947)
C TCY/4/3 Lists of Communal Air Raid Shelters that were subsequently demolished and where the agreement entered into provided for a nominal single payment only (c. Jun 1941)
C TCY/4/4 List of Communal Air Raid Shelters that were subsequently demolished and where the no Agreement can be traced (c. Jun 1941)
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Air Raid Shelter construction |
You can find out more about the Second World War records on the History Centre website which includes the latest version of our Source Guide (PDF, 254kb).