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The Auxiliary Fire Service was reformed in 1948 alongside the Civil Defence Corps, starting initially with old National Fire Service equipment.However the role of the AFS was to provide mobile fire fighting columns that could be deployed to areas that had suffered a nuclear attack (it being assumed that the local fire fighting capability would most likely have been lost).
The Old Palace School Bombing on 20 April 1941 caused the largest single loss of life of firefighters in the history of the United Kingdom.. The Old Palace School in Poplar, London was being used as an Auxiliary Fire Service sub-station during The Blitz of World War II. 34 firefighters, 21 of whom had been sent from Beckenham in southeast London to assist their colleagues in east London, were ...
Cecil Bruce "CB" Jennings (16 August 1914 – 2 October 1989) was a South African rugby union player. [1] Biography. Jennings was educated at Dale College in King ...
Defeating Republican Governor Cecil H. Underwood in a landslide Primary elections ... Jennings Randolph (incumbent) 458,355 : 55.34% : Republican: Cecil H. Underwood:
Elizabeth Jennings was born at The Bungalow, Tower Road, Skirbeck, Boston, Lincolnshire, younger daughter of physician Henry Cecil Jennings (1893–1967), MA, BSc , MB BS , DPH, medical officer of health for Oxfordshire, and (Helen) Mary, née Turner.
The Straight Dope was a question-and-answer newspaper column written under the pseudonym Cecil Adams.Contributions were made by multiple authors, and it was illustrated (also pseudonymously) by Slug Signorino. [1]
Former Vanderbilt football and Jefferson County High star athlete Jeff Jennings has died after a battle with acute myeloid leukemia. Former Vanderbilt football running back, Jefferson County star ...
VMA-142 would remain at NAS Jax until its relocation to nearby NAS Cecil Field in 1978. On July 1, 1957, The United States Air Force Air Defense Command established a Phase III Mobile Radar station at NAS Jacksonville with the 679th Aircraft Warning and Control Squadron operating AN/FPS-3 , AN/FPS-8 , and AN/MPS-14 radars as part of the ...