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.
states that the National Fire Service was created on 18 August 1941 and continued in existence until 1 April 1948.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
National Fire Service / NFS
The Beckenham firemen are also commemorated, and listed by name, on a plaque ...
Member of the ARP/Civil Defence Services - stretcher bearer. Andrew Behan has kindly provided this research:Â Horace William Field was born 13 March 1890 in Limehouse, the 3rd of the seven children...
Medical Board in the St John Ambulance Brigade, Metropolitan Corps, 1889-1900. Honorary Associate in the Order of St John. The Brigade's first Honorary Surgeon.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
District Staff Officer in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District, 1915-1948. Officer in the Order of St John.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
District Officer in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 (Prince of Wales's) District, 1926-1947. Serving Brother in the Order of St John.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
Fireman Harry Errington was awarded the George Cross, the highest award for valour alongside the VC - when he saved two firemen colleagues from the flaming ruins of the Rathbone Street fire station...
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