The confirms that the Auxiliary Fire Service was initially formed in January 1938 as part of the WW2 Civil Defence Service. The states that it ended on 18 August 1941 when the 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:
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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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E. G. Ladd
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
Ernest R. Beadle
Auxiliary Fireman Ernest Reginald Beadle was born on 26 November 1908 in Anerley, Surrey, the son of Ernest Albert Beadle (1879-1942) and Annie Beadle née Penberthy (b.1881). In the 1911 census he ...
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
Salvageman Henry George Sharp
Henry George Sharp was born on 27 August 1883 in Clapham, Surrey (now Greater London), his birth being registered in the 4th quarter of 1883 in the Wandsworth Registration District, Surrey. On 17 ...
1 memorial
Station Officer Frederick Ernest Hawkins
Firefighter who died as a result of a fire at Langley St, WC2. Hawkins, Rawden and Gadd died 11-23 May 1954. Frederick Ernest Hawkins was born on 28 June 1913 in Tottenham, Middlesex (now Greater ...
1 memorial
Southwark Fire Station, HQ and Training Centre
This location has hosted 4 buildings important to the history of the London Fire Brigade. We’ll tell the story chronologically. In 1777 a new St Saviour’s workhouse, by George Gwilt the Elder, wa...
2 memorials
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