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Offline rallenza

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Smethwick - AFS unit during WW2
« on: Wednesday 29 June 16 13:20 BST (UK) »
Hi,
Does anyone have any info or background on the Auxiliary Fire Service unit that was  based in Smethwick?  My Dad served in this unit, but i know very little about it.

Many thanks
HILL-Walsall, Handsworth, Hockley-Birmingham, UK
WILLIAMS/HILL-Great Barr, Birmingham UK & NZ-NI
LOFT/NZ-NI
SCARF - Staffs- UK, possibly East Anglia UK 1850+& NZ/NI

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Re: Smethwick - AFS unit during WW2
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 29 June 16 17:39 BST (UK) »
Have you tried the Smethwick Heritage Centre here :
http://www.smethwick.org.uk/

Or Sandwell Archives :

http://www.sandwell.gov.uk/info/200253/archives_local_and_family_history

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Re: Smethwick - AFS unit during WW2
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 13 August 16 22:29 BST (UK) »
Hello Alycia,

thank you for your kind reply to my request.

I have previously asked around the  local information units, so I posted here as there seemed to be little official recorded info about these units and their movements during the AFS existence, even when they became part of NFS.  Hence my request on RootsChat.

What sporadic delving I have done seems to  indicate from other forums that this is a national difficulty, and one which we need to ask granddads and 'mas before they pass on. I have frequently encountered a forum request for help with only one or two respondents, implying that there is little out there.

Hopefully one day someone will find a plastic bag in their loft full of this history.



HILL-Walsall, Handsworth, Hockley-Birmingham, UK
WILLIAMS/HILL-Great Barr, Birmingham UK & NZ-NI
LOFT/NZ-NI
SCARF - Staffs- UK, possibly East Anglia UK 1850+& NZ/NI