My brother Cyril and I were Air Raid Wardens for the section of Binley Road,
Coventry, where we lived with our Parents and Family. This involved having
some training in the effects of blast, etc., from the bombs, and also First
Aid for immediate attention to any casualties before the Ambulance and First
Aid Teams arrived on the scene.
One of our duties was to contact the people in all the Houses in our
Sector and find out how many people were living there - a question resented
by many of the occupants until we explained that this information was
necessary so that should the house be destroyed by bombs we could tell
the rescue squads how many people they might need to look for in the ruins.
Not a nice thought but we had to be prepared.
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Mary Richardson
July 1997
Mary has written another story about this period :