Group    From 1938  To 1968

Auxiliary Fire Service / AFS

Categories: Emergency Services

The Auxiliary Fire Service was formed in 1938 as part of the Civil Defence Service and was superseded in August 1941 by the National Fire Service.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 ...

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Chelsea Firefighters

This plaque is in the same style as others erected by Firemen Remembered, alt...

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Fireman Sidney Alfred Holder

Blitzwalkers give a good description of the incident. The AFS squad sent to ...

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Firemen Randolph & Skinner

This plaque was rededicated to the memory of the two firemen in a ceremony on...

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Firewoman Yvonne Green

AFS, London. In memory of auxiliary firewoman, Yvonne Green, who died near t...

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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...

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Beckenham Auxiliary firemen

Those killed at Old Palace School are also commemorated (not by name) on a pl...

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Cubitt Town School air raid

{Beneath the AFS symbol:} In memory of auxiliary firewomen Joan Fanny Bartlet...

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Plaistow Road WW2 air attack

Our colleague Andrew Behan points out the following errors on this plaque: Fi...

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Poplar firemen

AFS London In memory of fifteen members of the Auxiliary Fire Service killed...

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Other Subjects

Victor Ralph Farley Chipperfield

Victor Ralph Farley Chipperfield

Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1. Victor Ralph Farley Chipperfield was born on 21 August 1897, a son of Henry William Chipperfield (b. circa ...

Person, Armed Forces, Emergency Services

War served, WW1
1 memorial
Henry Herbert Butcher

Henry Herbert Butcher

Auxiliary fireman killed in the bomb attack on Henry Cavendish School, Balham. Our colleague Andrew Behan has kindly researched this man: Auxiliary Fireman Henry Herbert Butcher was born on 20 Feb...

Person, Emergency Services

War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
L.Fm. Jack Bathie
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
Leading Fireman Leslie Langham

Leading Fireman Leslie Langham

Leslie Langham was born on 9 October 1912, the son of Henry Langham (b.1886) and Annie Langham née Hodkin (b.1894). His birth was registered in the 4th quarter of 1912 in the Mansfield registration...

Person, Emergency Services

War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
Henry Piller

Henry Piller

Auxiliary fireman killed in an air raid on Poplar

Person, Emergency Services

War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial