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Group    From 1938  To 1968

Auxiliary Fire Service / AFS

Categories: Emergency Services

Auxiliary Fire Service / AFS

The was formed in 1938 as part of the Civil Defence Service and was superseded in August 1941 by the National Fire Service. After the war the AFS was reformed alongside the Civil Defence Corps, forming part of the UK's planned emergency response to a nuclear attack. It was disbanded in the UK in 1968.

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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 ...

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Chelsea Firefighters

This plaque is in the same style as others erected by Firemen Remembered, alt...

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Fireman Sidney Alfred Holder

Blitzwalkers give a good description of the incident. The AFS squad sent to ...

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Firemen Randolph & Skinner

This plaque was rededicated to the memory of the two firemen in a ceremony on...

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Firewoman Yvonne Green

AFS, London. In memory of auxiliary firewoman, Yvonne Green, who died near t...

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Auxiliary Fire Service / AFS

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Balham firefighters

The plaque is located behind a high exterior wall which makes it difficult to...

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Beckenham Auxiliary firemen

Those killed at Old Palace School are also commemorated (not by name) on a pl...

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Cubitt Town School air raid

{Beneath the AFS symbol:} In memory of auxiliary firewomen Joan Fanny Bartlet...

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Plaistow Road WW2 air attack

Our colleague Andrew Behan points out the following errors on this plaque: Fi...

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Poplar firemen

AFS London In memory of fifteen members of the Auxiliary Fire Service killed...

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Other Subjects

Fireman Richard Daniel Stocking

Fireman Richard Daniel Stocking

Richard Daniel Stocking was born on 19 November 1926, the third of the five children of Richard Daniel Stocking (1903-1953) and Rose Florence Stocking née Oates (1902-1951). His birth was registere...

Person, Emergency Services, Tragedy

2 memorials
Leading Fireman Cecil Roberto Andreazzi

Leading Fireman Cecil Roberto Andreazzi

There are conflicting records as to this fireman's middle name, i.e. Roberto, Robert and Roberts. We have opted to use the more frequently recorded Roberto. Cecil Roberto Andreazzi was born on 3 N...

Person, Emergency Services

War dead non-military, WW2
2 memorials
Frederick Charles Augustus Mayger

Frederick Charles Augustus Mayger

Frederick Charles Augustus Mayger was born on 27 June 1877 the eldest of the five children of George Augustus Mayger (1855-1901) and Mary Jane Mayger née Blatchford (1858-1895). His birth was regis...

Person, Armed Forces, Emergency Services

War served, WW1
1 memorial
Ronald M. Bailey

Ronald M. Bailey

Auxiliary Fireman Ronald Mark Bailey was born on 4 August 1915 in Balham, the eldest of the four children of Mark Bailey (b.1881) and Violet Rosina Bailey, née Mann (1893-1972). He was baptised on ...

Person, Emergency Services

War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
Auxiliary Fireman Mervyn James Taylor

Auxiliary Fireman Mervyn James Taylor

From the Sub Fire Station 6W, Cheyne Place. Died in a fire which took the lives of seven firemen, known as "The Wednesday".

Person, Emergency Services

War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial