| AdminHistory | The Special Purposes Sub-Committee was established in November 1941, following the re-organisation of the sub-committees. It consisted of five to seven main committee members, and its purpose was to take responsibility for the establishment and operation of anti-gas measures, all mobile canteens and canteens for all Civil Defence Personnel, undertaking repairs on houses damaged by enemy action, the removal and storage of furniture from bombed houses, Civil Defence Service Depots and their staff, and Report and Control centres. The sub-committee was disbanded after the Second World War. |