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Gas Mask Drill at the Great Western Railway Works, Reading (one of two)

Photograph from Reading Chronicle Collection - June 1938

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An Air Raid Precautions class for Great Western Railway workers

The staff at the Great Western Railway works were shown a demonstration of how to deal with an incendiary bomb.

This photograph was published in the Berkshire Chronicle on 24 June 1938.

Museum object number REDMG : 1980.36.A61.4a

See related topic: Reading Chronicle

See related topic: Reading and the Second World War