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    Birmingham Fire Brigade 1914.

    You're certainly not an idiot and I also have no links with any fire service. Just a lucky guess putting 2 and 2 together! I would love it if someone could provide some names for the Birmingham Firemen called to the colours 1914. Knowing my medals, this photo would have been post 1918 and...
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    Birmingham Fire Brigade 1914.

    Thanks for this mikejee, in fact I think that this reference is him!! 'SO' may stand for Station Officer and this is the rank that is on his medal!! Would you be kind enough to send the archive clip, so that I may save it? I wonder whereabouts he served in Birmingham?!
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    Birmingham Fire Brigade 1914.

    Can anyone please help me...or direct me to someone who has the 'knowledge'! I own medals to H. Veasey, who served with the Durham Light Infantry during the Boer War 1899-1902. He then joined the Birmingham Fire Brigade (around 1907?). He served with the DLI during WW1 and then returned to the...
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