LONDON HEROES
CIVIL, DEFENCE WORKERS LIVES GIVEN FOR COUNTRY. MANY SERIOUSLY WOUNDED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, November 27. Mr, Emil Davies, chairman of the London County Council, in a tribute to the civil defence forces, said that London’s roll of honour includes 27 members of rescue parties who have given their lives for their country as surely as any soldier, in addition to 100 seriously wounded. London’s ambulance services were among the most efficient in the world. They had a pre-war personnel of 400. and they now have 10.000 men and women. The fire service had a pre-war personnel of 3000 and now 30,000. The rescue parties were still only 60 percent. of the wartime establishment; there were 1764 rescue parties with 18,250 members ’ working round the clock. The men were mostly drawn from the building and operative trades.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 November 1940, Page 5
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