Hatfield at War
Hatfield Civil Defence
By Jean Cross
Hatfield Civil Defence Volunteers 1945 Back row: Mr James, ?, ? , ? , Victor Grayson, ? . Second row: ?, ?, George (Sandy) Cross, Walter Jefferies. Front row : ?
presumed De Havilland volunteers outside Council Offices – George (Sandy) Cross 4th from left second row (wearing beret) Can you add any names?
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Back Row, Second left definitely LLOYD MILEHAM. He owned and ran A1 Road Services Garage on St. Albans Road between the Stonehouse and The Comet, opposite de Havillands. The garage sold petrol and did car servicing. It had the first hydraulic inspection lift in the country. He had the garage until the early sixities when it was bought by compulsory purchase for redevelopment. The Galleria.
My father, Leonard Boreham, was a member of the Home Guard but I don’t see him on the photo above.
Back row 2nd left Lloyd Mileham?
My father, Norman Paxton, was in the Civil Defence as late as the late 1950’s. I was born in 1953 and can remember him going to meetings. I think they were held in the Nissen huts which may have been on St. Albans road, I’m not sure. ( We also went there for immunisations etc ). I still have the big black buttons with C.D. On them from his black overcoat. Linda Rose ( Paxton ).