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Archival description
Casualties
Y/ORD/4/6/17 · Sub-series · 1939-1948
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes correspondence regarding the Personal Injuries (Civilians) Scheme, protocols for civilian deaths, lists of air raid casualties and mortuary protocols.

Y/ORD/4/6/17/1 · File · 1939-1946
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes papers regarding personal injuries and schemes for civilians, correspondence, Women's Voluntary Service roles in the scheme, insurance documents, papers regarding the Emergency Hospital Schemes and war damages correspondence.

Protocol for civilian deaths
Y/ORD/4/6/17/2 · File · 1939-1948
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes correspondence relating to civilian casualties and deaths and the protocols to be taken for reporting and burials. Some papers relate to temporary mortuary accomodation locations, volunteers for the cause, conversions of buildings into mortuaries

Civil Defence Wardens
Y/ORD/4/6/2 · Sub-series · 1938-December 1945
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes pictures of the Head Wardens for York, Chief Warden's correspondence, Chief Warden's circulars and information about the numbers of paid and unpaid wardens.

Wardens
Y/ORD/4/6/2/1 · File · 1940-1942
Part of York Civic Archive

Pictures of the Head Wardens for York, and information on the equipment for wardens.

Y/ORD/4/6/30 · Item · 1945
Part of York Civic Archive

The contacts book contains names and addresses of the engineering services personnel in 1945. Other details also include the depot in which individuals are located and the duties they have been allocated.

Y/ORD/4/6/31 · Item · c.1939-c.1945
Part of York Civic Archive

The chart consists of the City of York hierarchal establishment in reference to the war effort. The chart begins with the Prime Minister and governmental sectors, spanning through the hospital and medical services towards the various emergency services th

Y/ORD/4/6/37 · File · 1938-1942
Part of York Civic Archive

The A.R.P News magazines and A.R.P & A.F.S reviews span from 1938-1942. The magazines covers the publicity of the war and the most recent news and war developments according to the month it was issued. Other aspects include: articles, recruitment publicit

Y/ORD/4/6/4 · Sub-series · May 1939-November 1939
Part of York Civic Archive

Correspondence relating to staffing, equipment, first aid materials, purchases, wardens' posts, the installation of relay systems, building of public shelters, disposal of unexploded bombs, gas masks and supply depots.

Y/ORD/4/6/4/3 · File · September 1939
Part of York Civic Archive

Contains correspondence regarding wardens' posts, installation of relay systems,the building of public shelters and the disposal of unexploded bombs. Also includes a newspaper article regarding homelessness.

Circular 1764
Y/ORD/4/6/47 · Item · 1939
Part of York Civic Archive

The circular relates to air raid precautions, first aid posts and ambulance services.

Shelters
Y/ORD/4/6/5 · Sub-series · 1939-1943
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes correspondence and associated papers regarding the recruitment of volunteer wardens, air raid wardens and public air raid shelters.

Public shelters
Y/ORD/4/6/5/1 · File · 1939-1942
Part of York Civic Archive

Contains information regarding the recruitment of volunteer wardens, warden circulars and general maintenance of shelters.

Baedeker Raid Map
Y/ORD/4/6/51 · Item · 29 April 1942
Part of York Civic Archive

The plan includes details of the types of bombs which fell, and precisely where they fell.

Copy of Clifton Airfield map
Y/ORD/4/6/52 · Item · November 1945
Part of York Civic Archive

Copy of detailed map of Clifton Airfield, including all the buildings on site. Map was classified as a secret drawing in 1945 but this status was downgraded in January1958.

Y/ORD/4/6/6 · Sub-series · c.1939-1945
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes papers relating to potential gas attacks, bomb threats, air raid precautions for animals, emergency feeding and rest centres and posters produced by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents.

Rest centres
Y/ORD/4/6/6/6 · File · 1943
Part of York Civic Archive

Contains correspondence and information regarding the list of rest centres.