AIR RAID WARDEN KILLED
[British Official Wireless] (Received 21st June, 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, 20th June. One of those killed in last night's German air raid on Britain was an air; raid warden who was patrolling a road' advised people to take cover. He was, the first member of the A.R.P. services j to lose his life through enemy action, j
- A little man-was sitting in a London! Underground train with his gas-mask i on the seat beside him/when a woman, i weighing about seventeen stone,- plop-! ped down breathlessly, smashing the cardboard box containing the mask.) She apologised, but the little man seemed very angry. • Then a voice behind him said, consolingly: “Cheer up, mate. It could ’ave been worse. Your face might ’ave been in it.” A business manager thought his staff was lazy, so lie wrote and pinned up the following notice: “Bread is the staff of life, but that is no reason why the life of our staff is one continual loaf.’'
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 21 June 1940, Page 6
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