The London Fire Brigade website confirms that the Auxiliary Fire Service was initially formed in January 1938 as part of the WW2 Civil Defence Service. The Firefighters Memorial Trust website states that it ended on 18 August 1941 when the National Fire Service was created. A second era of the AFS began in November 1949, with men and women being recruited as part of the Civil Defence organisation during the ‘Cold war’ era, being stood down on 1 April 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...
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W. E. Nash
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.
1 memorial
St John Ambulance
The St John Ambulance Association was set up in 1877 by the Order of St John to teach industrial workers first aid, so that they could provide on-the-spot treatment in emergencies. The St John Am...
5 memorials
T. J. Pyer
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.
1 memorial
C. W. Licence
District Officer in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 (Prince of Wales's) District, 1932-1947. Serving Brother in the Order of St John.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
Reuben Norman
Member of the ARP/Civil Defence Services - auxiliary ambulance driver. Andrew Behan has kindly provided this research: Reuben Norman was born in 1920. He married his wife, Frances, and they had on...
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
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William Strang
Painter and etcher. Born Dumbarton, aged 17 came to the Slade School of Art and stayed in London. Illustrated the works of John Bunyan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Rudyard Kipling. A Google image ...
1 memorial
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