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
J. F. Collins
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
1 memorial
Private Frederick William Welch Dunk
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1. Private Frederick William Welch Dunk was born on 4 July 1875, a son of of John Dunk (b.1835) and Sarah Dunk...
War served, WW1
1 memorial
Rifleman Walter Baker
Walter Baker was born on 11 December 1896, the youngest of the five children of Walter Baker (b. circa 1858) and Martha Baker née Hornreeve (b. circa 1859). His birth was registered in the 1st quar...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Lord Sandberg CBE
Trustee of The Memorial Gates Trust. Michael Graham Ruddock Sandberg was born on 31 May 1927, the youngest of the three children of Gerald Arthur Clifford Sandberg (1882-1954) and Ethel Marian Cli...
1 memorial
Gerald Road Police Station
The police station opened in what was then called Cottage Row. The name was changed to Gerald Road in 1885. After years of debate about its future, in 1993 the police moved to the newly completed B...
1 memorial