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There is an urgent need to set up a European civil defence corps.

The control was closed in 1968 after the Civil Defence Corps was disbanded.

He then joined the new Civil Defence Corps, this time to protect the civilian population from nuclear warfare, rather than conventional bombs.

Many of the duties of the service were later revived as part of the Civil Defence Corps in 1949.

By the time that the Civil Defence Corps was run down in 1968, following yet another economic crisis, the network was as follows:

The Civil Defence Corps used to have a training site with a full-size mock-up of a bomb-damaged housing estate.

The Civil Defence Corps was due to be scrapped totally just a few years ago, until we roused public opinion enough to prevent it.'

The Auxiliary Fire Service was reformed in 1948 alongside the Civil Defence Corps.

He joined the Civil Defence Corps with his father until 1942 when all expatriate Dutch citizens were called up by the Dutch government.

The Civil Defence Corps were issued dark blue battledress with the same colour issued to post war prisoners in the United Kingdom.

The Industrial Civil Defence Service was a similar organisation to the Civil Defence Corps, but separate from it.

The Civil Defence Corps was a civilian volunteer organization established in Great Britain in 1949, existing until 1968, to aid in the aftermath of a nuclear attack.

These units were organised in a similar way to the Civil Defence Corps, with Headquarters, Warden, Rescue, First Aid and Fire Guard Sections.

Civil Defence Corps still exist in the Republic of Ireland as well as Australia (renamed the State Emergency Service in 1975) and New Zealand.

It was used as a hospital for Polish troops during the Second World War, and between 1950 and 1968 it housed the Civil Defence Corps training school for Scotland.

In 1987, Eastern Clinic and the office of the Civil Defence Corps were rebuilt to today's headquarter of the St. James' Settlement in Stone Nullah Lane.

Group control posts and control posts in larger factories had the status of warden posts in their own right, whereas smaller units answered to their local Civil Defence Corps warden post.

The Colonial Office established the Civil Defence Corps in 1950 and, to ensure an adequate grain supply in the advent of hostilities, initiated the building of eight underground flour mills in Malta and Gozo.

"While most of the 6th Division's battalions are former Iraqi National Guard units, some with their origins in the ING's predecessor, the Iraqi Civil Defence Corps, the division headquarters was not formed until August 2005."

The Civil Defence Corps was revived in 1948 by Act of Parliament, and the next year it was decided to construct a network of two-storey, hardened War Rooms built on Government sites and with concrete walls ranging from five to seven feet thick.

With the disbandment of the Auxiliary Fire Service, National Hospital Service Reserve, and the Civil Defence Corps in 1968 only members of the United Kingdom Warning and Monitoring Organisation continued to receive the medal on the UK mainland.

The college known as The Hawkhills is located at Easingwold near York in England, and was a private country house, later a police college and Civil Defence Corps training facility before becoming the emergency planning college for the Home Office's F6 Emergency Planning Division.

The Civil Defence Medal was instituted March 1961 and awarded for 15 years sparetime service in a variety of different organizations including; Auxiliary Fire Service, National Hospital Service Reserve, Civil Defence Corps and the United Kingdom Warning and Monitoring Organisation.