The Auxiliary Fire Service was formed in 1938 as part of the Civil Defence Service and was superseded in August 1941 by the National Fire Service.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
Fm. Stephen Michael Neill
Firefighter of Barbican Fire Station, who gave his life on St Pancras Way, London, 1st October, 1978. Red Plaque describes the fire and reports: "A firefighter at Barbican Fire Station, Stephen w...
1 memorial
Mrs E. McCaffrey
Lady District Officer in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District, 1918-1942. Serving Sister in the Order of St John.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
DC Jim Morrison
Detective Constable with the Metropolitan Police. Fatally stabbed when, although off duty, he attempted to arrest a bag thief and died, aged 26, on 13 December 1991. Posthumously awarded the Queen'...
1 memorial
Lt.-Col. Francis A. Brooks, MD, MRCS
Inspecting Officer on staff of Chief Commissioner in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District Metropolitan Corps, 1899-1935. Knight Grace in the Order of St John. The Museum of the Order of S...
Person, Armed Forces, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
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Milos Crnjanski
W2, Queensway, Flats 31 - 155, Queens Court
Miloš Crnjanski, 1893 - 1977, Serbian author, lived and wrote here, 1953 - 1965. Serbian Council of Great Britain
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Fawcett frieze - 26, Roy
SW1, Parliament Square
Most statues have plinths, which often carry the identity of the statue but little more. The plinth for this Millicent Fawcett statue is ...
1 subject commemorated
V&A façade - Flaxman
SW7, Cromwell Road
Excluding the allegories (such as Knowledge) there are 36 statues on the two public façades of the V&A Museum, on Exhibition Road and...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Joseph Merrick / John Merrick
"The Elephant Man". Born Leicester. Began to develop severe abnormalities within a few years. By aged 17 his mother had died, his father and step-mother had rejected him, and failing to find a job,...
1 memorial
HMS Victory
HMS Victory was built in the Old Single Dock in Chatham's Royal Dockyard. From her website "she would gain renown leading fleets in the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary War a...
1 memorial
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