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.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
National Fire Service / NFS
Commemorated ati
Old Palace School - WW2 bomb
The Beckenham firemen are also commemorated, and listed by name, on a plaque ...
Other Subjects
Lieutenant Christopher Fothergill Robinson
Christopher Fothergill Robinson was born 1 December 1909 in Lincoln, Ontario, Canada, the fourth of the five children of Richmond Fothergill Robinson (1879-1915) and Mabel Gertrude Robinson née Sin...
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
New Model Army
Created by the Parliamentarians to oppose the King's forces. It was a professional army, in contrast to the part-time local militia they had at their disposal previously. The men were full-time s...
2 memorials
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
24th Division of the army
Raised in 1914 and fought in France from August 1915 - end of WW1.
1 memorial
Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex
Born in Essex House. He was the son of Queen Elizabeth's Essex, and the last in the line.
1 memorial
Previously viewed
1 memorial
Ronald Reagan
Actor and 40th President of the USA, 1981 - 1989. Honorary knighthood - Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. Best film line? In the 1942 film "King's Row" on realising that his legs have...
Person, Cinema, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous, USA
2 memorials
War dead, Other war
1 memorial
William Hogarth - W4
W4, Hogarth Lane, Hogarth House
A London Inheritance has a good post on this house and its history.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
War dead, Other war
1 memorial
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