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
Bernard Cyril Freyberg, VC
Soldier and administrator. Born Bernard Cyril Freyberg in Richmond, Surrey. He spent his early life in New Zealand, and at the outbreak of WWI enlisted in Britain and fought in Gallipoli and France...
Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration, France, New Zealand, Turkey
War served, WW1
3 memorials
W. H. Hamilton
Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900.
War dead, Other war
1 memorial
F. Needham
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
1 memorial
Robert Baden-Powell
Army officer and founder of the boy scouts and girl guides. Born as Robert Stephenson Smyth Powell at 6 Stanhope Street, Paddington. His mother changed the family name to Baden-Powell after her hus...
Person, Armed Forces, Children, Community / Clubs, Seriously Famous, Afghanistan, India, Kenya, South Africa
4 memorials
B. J Camp
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
1 memorial