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tilly25
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Fire Service record
« on: Tuesday 13 October 09 12:33 UTC (UK) »
Hi

Can anyone tell me how to get hold of a fire service record for the midlands area covering World War 2
looking for my father Harry Shawcross record

Many thanks

Judy
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diddymiller
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Re: Fire Service record
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 13 October 09 18:03 UTC (UK) »
hi Tilly, not sure you will find anything as this states:



National Fire Service personnel files would probably have been passed to the local fire brigades and later routinely destroyed, in line with standard practice.

The service cards for the National Fire Service were not preserved. These records held information about pay rates but did not give details of individuals’ names, addresses etc. The records had been rejected by a number of organisations on the grounds that the amount of information contained was insufficient to justify the expense incurred in their preservation.

There are no surviving personnel records for the Air Raid Precautions (ARP).

Both the Auxiliary Fire Service and National Fire Services are long since defunct so it is improbable that any current government department would be holding further records for either of them.

Diddy
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Re: Fire Service record
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 13 October 09 18:08 UTC (UK) »
having said that it seems some people have traced info through regional areas. found this link - keep clicking to see further info:

www.fire-heritage-network.org

Diddy
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