Air Raid Wardens ww1

[Punchkent]

My grandmother was an Air Raid Warden in London in WW1. Are there records of this service ?

[Peter Goodey]

My grandmother was an Air Raid Warden in London in WW1

Are you sure you don't mean WW2?

[Peter Goodey]

Assuming you do mean WW2, the Wardens Service in London was administered by the boroughs. Your best bet I think would be to try the appropriate record office.

Have a look at the section on The Wardens Service on the following page - https://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/War/londonCivil.html

This will give you an idea of the sort of records you might find if you're lucky.

[Punchkent]

Hello Peter. Thanks but it was First Workd War. I have her card showing call outs for raids in 1918. She was based in New Bond Street where she lived at the time. I can upload photo of the card but not sure how on this site. Will try.

[Punchkent]

Hello Peter. Thanks but it was First Workd War. I have her card showing call outs for raids in 1918. She was based in New Bond Street where she lived at the time. I can upload photo of the card but not sure how on this site. Will try.

[StintonLomas]

Hi
This is from
https://history.blog.gov.uk/2015/01/...rst-world-war/

By autumn 1917, 86 Tube stations had been made available as public shelters with a capacity of a quarter of a million. Rules to govern behaviour and control numbers were regulated by Special Constables. The scientist and statistician, J.B.S. Haldane, estimated that the number of civilians taking shelter in the Tube approached a peak of 300,000, whilst a further 500,000 were thought to be using basements and cellars for protection during raids.

It would seem that shelter stewards did just that, whereas before WW 2 they had organised a different Civil Defence force where the ARP wardens actually patrolled and kept an eye out for blackout breaches and augmented the siren warnings as well as doing other jobs such as fire watching on roofs sometimes from one of these. https://farm3.static.flickr.com/2695/...322960ab_o.jpg