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RefNoKCC2/D/CD/1/256
AltRefNoFile no. 149B
TitleParish invasion committee file
DescriptionCircular letter from Ministry of Health to local authorities re Home Security circular No. 103/1941 - Duties of local authorities in the event of invasion. Ministry of Home Security circular No. 105/1941 - Duties of officers of local authorities after intensive air attack. Letter from regional commissioner - Parish invasion committees. Circular from regional commissioner – Invasion instructions for civil defence controllers. Invasion instructions for ARP controllers. (Secret). List of members of parish invasion committees in Huntingdonshire, Home Guard members, and civilian advisers. Correspondence on the setting up and working of invasion committee and expenditure thereon. Appointment of deputies. Notes for invasion committees. Scheme for invasion committees. Model defence scheme. Black-outs for schools. Notes on action under invasion conditions. Muster exercise. Plans for civilian action in invasion. Notes for exercises in conjunction with the Home Guard. Regional commissioner – Consolidated instructions to invasion committees and addendum. Home Security circular No. 215/1942 – Position and duties of the civil defence services in the event of invasion. Defence scheme statistics. Circular to chairmen of invasion committees, etc, from county controller – Invasion committees, civil and military liaison. Ministry of Home Security circular no. 78/1943 – Preparations against invasion. (Confidential). Combined military and civil TEWT (tactical exercise without troops) for villages – Instructions. Notes on regional commissioner’s visits to St Neots and St Ives. Considerable correspondence on matters relating to parish invasion committees, a great deal of which is marked ‘Secret’ or ‘Confidential’. The threat of invasion was very real during the years up to 1944. Last letter on file, circular letter from county controller to chairman of invasion committees – Dissolution of invasion committees.
DateMay 1941-October 1944
CreatorNameHuntingdonshire County Council
RepositoryHuntingdonshire Archives
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