Assistance Board Mobile Office

[Postwarden]

The Assistance Board, known until 1940 as the Unemployment Assistance Board became part of the wartime post-raid services, helping with claims for personal injuries, war damage and providing payments for the replacement of furniture, tools, clothing and other personal property.

Originally working in local council Rest Centres - where the Board's staff were identified by the armlet shown - from 1941 the Board formed a number of mobile offices which could be sent to any part of the country after serious air raids.

The photos show such a Mobile Office in Oxford in January 1943. As can be seen from the close up the staff of these Mobile Offices wore uniforms - their colour unknown - which carried a cloth arm title.

I have never seen an example of this title and wondered if anyone had.

Jon