CHILDREN TRAINED AS AIRRAID WARDENS
(From a Special Correspondent) LONDON, sth October. At Hove, Sussex, school children are being trained as air-raid wardens. A boy rejected as a warden because of his youthfulness gave rise to the idea for the movement which is known as the Young Wardens’ Service. School children under 16 are eligible for enrolment. To become members they must pass a test which includes memorising a number of air-raid precautions rules in rhyme. The first rule is “My daily task is to carry my mask.” The children are taught to chalk on the pavement outside their homes the number of people sleeping indoors; to see to the nightly filling of water troughs in thenstreet and to attend to the black-out in their homes. The service already has 80 members. They wear a green armlet and red shoulder ribbon.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 30 November 1940, Page 12
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