Includes Name, rank, address, regiment and address where stationed. Also includes newspaper cuttings listing soldiers in alphabetical order.
Notes on Source 1: Absent voters list for October, 1918
Notes on Source 2: The King's book of York Fallen heroes
Notes on Source 3: York cemetary company registers
Notes on Source 4: Notes on Repatriated Prisoner of War list
Transcribed articles from the Yorkshire Evening Press dated January and February 1919 regarding an evening of entertained organised by the Lord Mayor for repatriated prisoners of war and their consorts.
Includes information about telephone company contracts, a dinner card, information booklets, notes on gas poisoning, papers relating to housing schemes, circulars and copies of the Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps.
Includes agreement for use of the National Telephone Company and correspondence regarding the agreement contract, contract for private telephone lines for the Fire Brigade, and contract and correspondence regarding the private telephone line between York
Includes basic rescue training and improvised methods for casualty handling.
Assessment of the protection afforded by buildings against gamma radiation from fallout.
The file was compiled in relation to the Ministry of Health.
Two editions - one from May 1902 and one from 1908.
The business card was for the opening of the Castle Museum on 23 April 1938.
Includes civil defence publications, papers relating to wardens, ARP Emergency Committee agendas and minutes, Air Raid Precautions (ARP) correspondence, shelter files, instructions to civilians and papers regarding the welfare of citizens, fire service and fire prevention files, papers relating to the Women's Voluntary Service, papers regarding the billeting of workers, Ministry of Health files, papers regarding air raids and resultant war damage, papers regarding the Halifax bomber crash in York, staff registers, papers regarding training exercises, casualty lists, invasion committee papers, Operations Regional Comissioner correspondence, A.R.P Control Headquarters register of permits and papers relating to German chemical warfare explorations.
Includes correspondence outlining the financial situation of the Civil Defence of York in 1939, a handbook outlining procedures in the event of an air raid, and appendix to the handbook.
Outlines the financial situation of the Civil Defence in York in 1939.
Handbook detailing arrangements made for 'the preservation of life, the relief of the suffering, and the care of the homeless' in the event of an air attack. Also gives the capacity amounts for shelters in York.
Appendix to the Civil Defence Handbook.
Includes details of the government scheme for the billeting of war workers, as well as a handbook on billeting and welfare for use by Chief Billeting Officers.
Includes notes attached referring to evacuation schemes
Also includes correspondence regarding food for workmen.
Files produced by the Ministry of Health, containing general correspondence about the air-raid protections act, discussions about equipment, instructions for storing supplies, details for rates of pay, and papers relating to various emergency hospital sch
Includes files relating to various air raids on the city of York, including the 1942 Baedeker Raid, and the administration of the aftermath of those raids. Also includes files relating to repairs to buildings and reglazing.
Includes reports on the 2 January 1941 bombing, as well as a report on the damage done by the bombs.
Includes reports on the bombing of 16 January 1941 bombing, as well as reports on the civil defence response and of damage done by the bombing.
Includes reports on the 3 April 1941 bombing.
Handwritten translation of German instructions for the bombing of the city.
Correspondence regarding repairs following the raid from 29th April to 30th May.
Correspondence regarding repairs following raids from 1st July to 27th October.
Primarily concerns a list of tarpaulins issued for war damage and their return dates.
Includes lists of workers and where they were sent, as well as requests for labourers.
Includes papers relating to the stockpiling of commoditites in York, such as - sugar, canned goods, tea, cheese, jam and condensed milk. Also includes charts showing the hierarchal A.R.P structure, information relating to the protocol for casualties for b
Also includes lists of repairs still to do.
Index for files on the war damage.
Also includes air raid reports.
Information relating to the casualties and damage caused by air raid.
Reports on 2nd August 1942 bombing and correspondence regarding it.
Reports on September 24th 1942 bombing of York.
Reports on raids outside of York, including correspondence and personal statements by wardens.
Includes war damage report pink forms.
Reports on the air raid in December 1942, as well as details of the areas affected and length of attack.
Includes descriptions of locations of targets in York.
Also includes order receipts and requests for materials.
Also includes complaints about jobs done incorrectly and a request for a survey report.
Also includes updates on working hours for repair work, lists of work outstanding and requests for repairs.
Reports on the air raid of 11th August 1940.
Includes complaints about completed repairs.
Also includes complaints about completed repairs and a damage report.
Includes a Demolition, Clearance and Post-Raid Salvage consolidating circular.
Includes correspondence regarding war damage from 4 October 1943 to 20 June 1946.
Includes correspondence regarding orders for work, requests for labour, quotes and estimates for further repairs.
Includes papers relating to the official War Damage and Housing Acts and correspondence relating to buildings destroyed or damaged for which claims are being made for.
Reports of the October 1940 air raid and of other similar raids.
Information on the impact and location of damage to the city of York in the early years of the Second World War.
The notice concerns the enemy action on 29 April 1942, and includes details of all the bomb damage in each ward of the city.
Reports on the air raid of November 1940.
Reports on the air raid of 15 November 1940, as well as a casualty report.
Explanatory Pamphlets and papers surrounding the War Damage Act of 1941 and other official documents.
Correspondence file regarding air raids, canteens, vehicles and damages.
Includes correspondence files regarding the crash, as well as newspaper clippings and official casualty lists. The bomber crasher in Nunthorpe Grove.
Includes a list of materials transferred from the Pumping Station to the Housing Depot, and correspondence regarding salvaged materials.
Includes a list of materials transferred from the Pumping Station to the Housing Depot.
Includes correspondence regarding salvaged material, and a list of materials supplied to the Housing and Estates departments.
Staff registers including salary details and length of time served with the York Corporation. The volumes primarily cover the Town Clerk's Office.
Staff register for the city. Includes names, salary and the years worked there. Some members of staff were in post prior to 1939.
Staff register for city from Town Clerk's Office.
Staff register for city from Town Clerk's Office.
Staff register for city from Town Clerk's Office.
Includes electrical and radio notes for wireless operators, training reports, correspondence regarding enemy weaponry, premises papers and details of exercise 'Leap'.
Contains information relevant to the use and function of radios.
Includes papers describing Civil Defence operations in which safety precautions are necessary, and papers surrounding new weaponary, such as, 'balloon devices' in which the jelly, once ignited, can erupt over 20ft. Also includes new types of mine parachut
Contains information relating to training and the hiring of lecture rooms.