Ricardo Street School bombing
The school was used as a fire sub-station. It received a direct hit from a high explosive bomb; Our photograph shows a hole in the floor of a classroom on the second floor. Twelve firefighters were...
The school was used as a fire sub-station. It received a direct hit from a high explosive bomb; Our photograph shows a hole in the floor of a classroom on the second floor. Twelve firefighters were...
Assistant Commissioner in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 (Prince of Wales's) District, 1933-1951. Officer in the Order of St John.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
Auxiliary Fireman Percy Charles Aitchison was born on 2 February 1914 in Brockley, London, a son of Robert Imrie Aitchison (1876-1964) and Eugenie Louise Sarah Aitchison née Demolice (1874-1939). H...
Auxiliary fireman killed in an air raid on Poplar
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...
Fireman killed in the Dudgeon's Wharf explosion. Andrew Behan has researched Appleby: Fireman John Victor Appleby was born on 20 June 1946 and his birth was registered in Poplar. He was the son of...
Derek Edward Aust was born in 1922, the elder child of Frederick William Aust (1893-1980) and Ellen Christina Aust née Harrison (1901-1980). His birth was registered in the 4th quarter of 1922 in t...
The Auxiliary Fire Service was formed in 1938 as part of the Civil Defence Service and was superseded in August 1941 by the National Fire Service.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 C...
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 ...