Masking Devoran – a distribution of gas masks for Devoran and Carnon Downs districts was made on Thursday and Friday at Devoran Village Hall, Mr. H.C. Sweet (senior warden) superintended, assisted by members of the Red Cross Detachment and other residents.
as reported in Western Morning News 7 September 1939
Masking Devoran – a distribution of gas masks for Devoran and Carnon Downs districts was made on Thursday and Friday at Devoran Village Hall, Mr. H.C. Sweet (senior warden) superintended, assisted by members of the Red Cross Detachment and other residents.
as reported in Western Morning News 7 September 1939
Harry Sweet is listed as an ARP Warden for Devoran amongst others on the 1939 Register.
Notice how in Perranarworthal,
use of the playing fields were being set aside or allowed for “the children arrived from the metropolis” (presumably evacuee children from London or other big cities), linked maybe to asking “Misses Hiskock (reception officers) to attend the next meeting of the council”;
as in Devoran, gas masks have been issued in Perranarworthal “all the masks had been issued, except to those absent on holiday”;
and a medical “first aid post” for Perranarworthal area had been secured with help from Truro Rural District Council.
Blog post by Mark Norris, DVH100, 13 April 2024
Devoran War Memorial Cornwall 