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
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Old Palace School - WW2 bomb
The Beckenham firemen are also commemorated, and listed by name, on a plaque ...
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War dead, WW1
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
42nd and 48th Royal Tank Regiment
The 48th regiment was an armoured division of the British army. It was originally formed as a duplicate of the 42nd Royal Tank Regiment. In 1943, during engagements before the Battle of Longstop H...
1 memorial
S. Wiles
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
1 memorial
Henry, Earl of Romney
Politician and army officer. Born Henry Sidney (or Sydney) in Paris. Entered parliament in 1679 and was one of the group known as 'The Immortal Seven', who invited William of Orange to take the thr...
Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration, France, Ireland, Netherlands
1 memorial
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Derrick Evans
Derrick M. Evans was born in 1940, the son of Sidney Morley Evans (1906-1941) and Beatrice Mary Evans née Drake (1906-1941). His birth was registered in the 3rd quarter of 1940 in the Islington reg...
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
Battle of Britain
As part of WW2 the Germans set out to gain supremacy over the RAF in the British skies. This, the Battle of Britain, was the first time that a major campaign took place in the air. The Luftwaffe at...
5 memorials
Royal Mail
Before the 2012 Olympics started the Royal Mail committed to turn a red post box gold for each British Gold medal, Olympic and Paralympic. In the event this meant that over 100 boxes turned colour...
14 memorials
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Alice Maud Lilian Ballard
Killed as a result of a 13 October 1940 air raid on Coronation Avenue.
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
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