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ABERDEEN

... bullets to bombs is being made by Aberdeen women aH Mothers of fighting men guard their homes against incendiaries dropped by Nazis. Women form a large part of street Fire Guard teams. Mrs A. I Mrs M. A Blenheim(on is an and Miss Gwendoline Leyton, Woodside ...

Published: Thursday 24 December 1942
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 382 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

PROXY UNION

... £425 per annum, with free house, coal and gas. The appointment is tp take effect on Mr Dalton demitting his present post of Fire Guard Staff Officer at Arbroath, and his successor taking over that post. Public-House Half-Holiday A letter from Mr James Donald ...

Published: Thursday 17 September 1942
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 534 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Peterhead II Fireguard Scheme

... Treasurer M‘D. Gordon said that arrangements were being made to give fire guards a refresher course after which the fire guard would be divided into sectors with senior fire guard at each post. ~ On the ...

Published: Thursday 06 May 1943
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 933 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

NORTHERN CASUALTIES

... and the other in the R-A. The youngest son is a member of Gordon’s College A.T.C., and their only daughter is on special Fire Guard Service. Mrs Elizabeth Macdonald, Burnside Farm, Radderty, Fortrose, has received official information that her son Pte ...

Published: Thursday 10 September 1942
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 562 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Rugby Result Surprise SURPRISE result in Saturday’s rugby was the defeat of Aberdeen University by Royal ..

... committee which brought about its establishment. Fraserburgh Fire Appointment Fraserburgh Town Council yesterday unanimously appointed Mr Wm. A. Burnett, 25 Strichen Road, Fraserburgh, to be Fire Guard Staff Officer. Mr Burnett, who is a ship broker and commission ...

Published: Thursday 27 November 1941
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 539 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

IN CASE OF BLITZ

... home area. By signing the form people would join the voluntary fire guard and undertake to perform fire prevention duties in the neighbourhood of their own home for periods amounting to not. less than forty-eight hours a month, or on a rota basis of hours ...

Published: Thursday 16 October 1941
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 646 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

COMMUNAL MEAL EXTENSION

... permission to make the alterations. FIRE GUARD OFFICERSHIP Letters were read from the Scottish Home Department in which it was stated that the Regional Commissioner had agreed to the appointment of a full-time Fire Guard officer a salary of not more than ...

Published: Thursday 12 March 1942
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1436 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FINAL “WINGS” WEEK FIGURE

... Aberdeen on Tuesday. The real purpose of his visit was in connection with the Fire Guard. Service, but he also took the opportunity of inspecting branches of the National Fire Service. At new area training school he saw firemen and firewomen from various ...

Published: Thursday 15 July 1943
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 704 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Rear-Admiral C. G. Stuart, opening the War Comforts Gathering, was accompanied on the platform by a ..

... Registration Dates Sign On for Fire Guard MALE British subjects between eighteen and sixty in areas where the Fire Prevention (Business Premises) Order applies—most urban areas throughout Britain—must register for the Fire Guard on Sunday, ...

Published: Thursday 11 September 1941
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1465 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ABSEm FROM DUTY

... implicated shirkers of the last war shirkers of this war.” So wrote Peter Cormack, ter, 17 Land Street, Buckpool Buckie fire guard officer was warned about his rep ei absence from firewatching At Banff Sheriff Court last he pleaded guilty to having to ...

Published: Thursday 30 July 1942
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 782 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

GIVING ATTENTION TO STRAWBERRIES

... Friendly Society for twenty years. Mr Lennox has taken a prominent part in Civil Defence work as a Deputy Group Warden and head Fire Guard. Teaching Posts From short leets the following appointments were made last week by Aberdeenshire Education Committee —Miss ...

Published: Thursday 15 June 1944
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 831 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

£30,000,000 FOR HIGHLAND

... Association. Portrait for National Gallery A portrait of Mrs Marion Patterson, 1 Littlejohn Street, Aberdeen, the first street fire guard in Britain to be decorated for bravery, will be hung among the war heroes and heroines in the National Gallery. The portrait ...

Published: Thursday 28 January 1943
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 762 | Page: 3 | Tags: none