The Auxiliary Fire Service was formed in 1938 as part of the Civil Defence Service and was superseded in August 1941 by the National Fire Service. After the war the AFS was reformed alongside the Civil Defence Corps, forming part of the UK's planned emergency response to a nuclear attack. It was disbanded in the UK in 1968.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Auxiliary Fire Service / AFS
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Canadian WW2 firefighters
{On the floral emblem:} Canada fire fighters. In memory of three members of ...
Chelsea Firefighters
This plaque is in the same style as others erected by Firemen Remembered, alt...
Fireman Sidney Alfred Holder
Blitzwalkers give a good description of the incident. The AFS squad sent to ...
Firemen Randolph & Skinner
This plaque was rededicated to the memory of the two firemen in a ceremony on...
Firewoman Yvonne Green
AFS, London. In memory of auxiliary firewoman, Yvonne Green, who died near t...
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Auxiliary Fire Service / AFS
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Balham firefighters
The plaque is located behind a high exterior wall which makes it difficult to...
Beckenham Auxiliary firemen
Those killed at Old Palace School are also commemorated (not by name) on a pl...
Cubitt Town School air raid
{Beneath the AFS symbol:} In memory of auxiliary firewomen Joan Fanny Bartlet...
Plaistow Road WW2 air attack
Our colleague Andrew Behan points out the following errors on this plaque: Fi...
Poplar firemen
AFS London In memory of fifteen members of the Auxiliary Fire Service killed...
Other Subjects
William Henry Fall
William Henry Thomas Fall was born on 9 August 1879, his birth being registered in the 3rd quarter of 1879 in the St Saviour registration district, Southwark. He was one of the seven children of Th...
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
Firefighters Memorial Trust
Originally established as 'The Firefighters Memorial Charitable Trust Fund’ in a Deed dated 21st March 1991, it sought to commemorate the lives of those members of the Fire Service who were killed ...
1 memorial
Arthur Henry Wenborne
Auxiliary Fire Serviceman killed in the air raid on Ricardo Street School.
War dead non-military, WW2
2 memorials
Fm.John Victor Appleby
Fireman killed in the Dudgeon's Wharf explosion. Andrew Behan has researched Appleby: Fireman John Victor Appleby was born on 20 June 1946 and his birth was registered in Poplar. He was the son of...
2 memorials
Charles Wesley M. Drew
Fireman killed as a result of an air raid on Plaistow Road, E15 on 19 March 1941. Charles Wesley Messenger Drew was born on 19 June 1913, a son of Charles Drew (1889-1964) and Ethel Drew née Mess...
War dead non-military, WW2
2 memorials