Group    From 18/8/1941  To 1/4/1948

National Fire Service / NFS

Categories: Emergency Services

Nationwide fire service created during WW2 from the amalgamation of the wartime Auxiliary Fire Service and the many local authority fire brigades. After the war it was split into brigades again under local authority control.

The Firefighters Memorial Trust's website states that the National Fire Service was created on 18 August 1941 and continued in existence until 1 April 1948.

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
National Fire Service / NFS

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Old Palace School - WW2 bomb

The Beckenham firemen are also commemorated, and listed by name, on a plaque ...

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T. Kilgour

T. Kilgour

Either lost his life, or gave distinguished service to the London Fire Brigade, and was buried in the Highgate Cemetery plot between 1884 and 1955.

Person, Emergency Services

1 memorial
Capt. L. H. R. Claydon, Late RAMC (V)

Capt. L. H. R. Claydon, Late RAMC (V)

Assistant Commissioner in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District, 1919-1924. Serving Brother in the Order of St John.

Person, Armed Forces, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
J. T. Preston

J. T. Preston

Either lost his life, or gave distinguished service to the London Fire Brigade, and was buried in the Highgate Cemetery plot between 1884 and 1955.

Person, Emergency Services

1 memorial
William Downes

William Downes

Auxiliary fireman killed in an air raid on Poplar

Person, Emergency Services

War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
J. W. Pender

J. W. Pender

Either lost his life, or gave distinguished service to the London Fire Brigade, and was buried in the Highgate Cemetery plot between 1884 and 1955.

Person, Emergency Services

1 memorial