Source:Souvenir Programme
WICKERSLEY RESCUE SQUAD
The Wickersley Civil Defence Rescue Squad was a unit of the vast West Riding County Rescue Service. Consisting of local men, all volunteers, who eventually became fully trained in all duties of Civil Defence Rescue work including First Aid and Anti-gas measures.
The training of Rescue personnel consisted of the tying and bending of a very great vatiety of Knots. Bonds and Lashings both with cordage and steel wire ropes. Also the erection of various types of derricks and gantries. A knowledge of building construction and tunnelling and chiefly the various methods of entering bomb damaged buildings and the rescue of trapped and injured persons. All the training came under the supervision of a local rescue training Officer and the squad included a competent Leader, Deputy Leader and driver.
The competent and efficient way on which these local men carried out their C.D. Rescue duties, leaving their homes to stand by for action at all times of night and giving most evenings and week-ends to training above their ordinary daily work in the factories and mines, etc., proved that Wickersley had one of the most efficient Rescue Parties on the Rother Valley area.
Several of these men being awarded the West Riding Proficiency Badge and Certificate.
The commandant of the Rother Valley Rescue Service was B. Henson of Wickersley and the local Rescue training officer Mr. A. E. Reed also of Wickersley.