The Firemen Remembered Scheme

The World War II London Firemen and Firewomen Remembrance Group was a registered charity, (no longer functioning), which funded remembrance plaques around London, dedicated to recording the deaths of Firemen and Firewomen who died as a result of their duties in London during World War 2. They funded plaques to be placed as close as possible to the site where the remembered individuals died or were fatally injured.

A slightly different approach to the scheme was adopted in respect of a plaque dedicated to the three members of the ‘Corps of (Civilian) Canadian Firefighters’, who died whilst on the unique deployment to the United Kingdom, June 1942 to August 1945. They were located to operate from Southampton, Portsmouth, Bristol and Plymouth. Their plaque is located at the Telegraph Pub, Telegraph Road, Putney Heath, SW15 and was placed there as this is where one of the Corps was killed by a VI Flying Bomb on 5 July 1944, but also included two other members who died as a result of accidents, outside of London – one in Hampshire and one in Bristol.