The Auxiliary Fire Service was formed in 1938 as part of the Civil Defence Service and was superseded in August 1941 by the National Fire Service.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
Daniel Long
Daniel Long was born on 2 June 1878 the eldest of the eight children of Daniel Long (1849-1931) and Amy Long née Bush (1858-1923). His birth was registered in 3rd quarter of 1878 in the St. Saviour...
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
Stanley Robert Stevens
Auxiliary fireman killed in the bomb attack on Henry Cavendish School, Balham. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out further research: Auxiliary Fireman Stanley Robert Stevens was born on 25 October...
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
Warden Albert Charles Thompson
Albert Charles Thompson was born on 10 June 1909 the third of the nine children of Thomas Charles Thompson (1884-1942) and St. Helena Thompson née Shears (1888-1938). His birth was registered in th...
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
John Desmond Bernal, MA, FRS.
Crystallographer. John Desmond Bernal was born on 10 May 1901 in Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland, the eldest of the five children of Samuel George Bernal (1864-1919) and Elizabeth Bernal née Mil...
1 memorial
Keithroy Maynard
United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. Firefighter Keithroy Marcellus Maynard was born on 22 January 1971 in Montserrat, a UK Dependency in The C...
1 memorial