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A large series of National Fire Service pay record cards for Bedfordshire personnel serving during World War Two. The cards give some personal information, the reason for their retention, as well as rates of pay, notes pf payments and allowances, absences etc. The following entries are in the format - name - date of birth (if given) - brigade - address (if given, usuallu as address of wife as next of kin) - dates of service in Bedfordshire (personnel were often transferred to other areas):
Allen, James - 11 Sep 1904 - Mill Street, Bedford - 1942-1943;
Applegate, Oliver Frederick - 13 Sep 1911 - Bromham Road, Bedford - 49 Ashburnham Road, Bedford - 1942-1945;
Armsden, Frederick - 18 Jul 1904 - Mill Street, Bedford - Goldington Road, Bedford, 1942-1944;
Ashley, Eric Leon - 22 May 1915 - Britannia Works, Bedford - 1942-1943;
Ashton, George Edward - 9 Nov 1913 - Mill Street, Bedford - 1942;
Ashwell, John Thomas - 9 Dec 1882 - Mill Street, Bedford - 1942-1943;
Bailey, Walter James - 1 Mar 1908 - Bromham Road, Bedford - 13 Woburn Road, Bedford - 1942-1944;
Balbirnie, later Metcalfe, Patricia Frances - 25 Jul 1912 - Biggleswade - 1942-1948;
Banks, Peter Harry Cozens - 16 Apr 1917 - Mill Street, Bedford - 1942;
Barnham, Alfred - 21 Jul 1901 - Bromham Road, Bedford - 1942;
Barrett, Claude Harold - 5 Aug 1906 - Mill Street, Bedford - 1942-1945;
Beard, Harry - 16 Mar 1901 - Kempston - 1942;
Bennett, Dudley Frank - 19 Jul 1914 - Mill Street, Bedford - 1942-1945;
Bevis, Leslie James Martin - 29 Jul 1905 - Mill Street, Bedford - 1942-1945;
Billington, Jack Thomas - 28 Jul 1914 - Mill Street, Bedford - 1942-1944;
Boness, Sidney Lawrence - 20 Sep 1910 - Bromham Road, Bedford - 7 Salisbury Street, Bedford - 1942-1948;
Bossingham, Dorothy Emily - 21 Feb 1916 - Mill Street, Bedford - 1942-1944;
Bowman, Cecil Hugh - 26 Aug 1912 - London Road, Bedford - 1942-1944;
Boyd, Thomas Stanley - 3 Aug 1909 - Bromham Road, Bedford - 1942-1943;
Canniford, Olive May - 15 May 1921 - Mill Street, Bedford - 1942-1944;
Card, Albert Edward - 3 May 1902 - Bromham Road, Bedford - 1942;
Carrington, Frank Street - 30 Dec 1910 - London Road, Bedford - 1942-1945;
Carter, Albert James - 1941 - Cromwell Road, Luton;
Catlin, Alfred Ronald - 1 Aug 1907 - Mill Street, Bedford - 1942-1945;
Catlin, David - 3 Feb 1905 - Mill Street, Bedford - 1942-1945;
Chater, Doris Anne - 29 Apr 1921 - Mill Street, Bedford - 1942-1943;
Cole, Adele K. - 7 Jul 1922 - Mill Street, Bedford - 1942-1944;
Collett, Dorothy Gwen - 10 Apr 1914 - Mill Street, Bedford - 1942-1944;
Collins, Harold - 6 Oct 1912 - Britannia Works, Bedford - 94 Mile Road, Bedford - 1942-1946;
Crouch, Charles Fred Howard - 21 Jun 1913 - Bromham Road, Bedford - 21 Abbey Road, Bedford - 1942-1944;
Crowsley, Frank Benjamin - 29 Jul 1908 - Bromham Road, Bedford - 1942-1945;
Cunnington, Sidney - 28 Nov 1904 - Mill Street, Bedford - 1942-1945;
Cutler, Hubert Charles - Biggleswade - 28 Clifton Road, Shefford - 1942-1944;
Daniel, Leonard Albert - 11 Aug 1912 - Britannia Works, Bedford - 1942;
Daniels, William Harry - 9 Jul 1914 - Britannia Works, Bedford - Ford End Road, Bedford - 1942-1944;
Denton, William Henry - 3 Dec 1923 - Mill Street, Bedford - 1942;
Draper, Walter Robert - 9 Dec 1905 - Bedford - 14 Bunyan Road, Bedford - 1944-1946;
Eagles, Derek Geoffrey - 14 Dec 1912 - Mill Street, Bedford - 1942-1943;
Egan, Arthur Stanley - 25 Oct 1911 - Luton - 1941-1948;
Fagg, John Charles - 8 Jun 1905 - Mill Street, Bedford - 1942-1944;
Fensome, Charles William - 4 Oct 1911 - Britannia Works, Bedford - 1942
Fensome, Gilbert William Robert - 15 May 1905 - Luton - 45a Burr Street, Luton - 1944-1947;
Fincham, Frederick - 30 May 1912 - Bromham Road, Bedford - 1942-1948;
Fisher, Frederick W. - 6 Jul 1910 - Bromham Road, Bedford - 1942-1945;
Flanagan, Albert Henry - 30 Mar 1909 - Britannia Works, Bedford - Ford End Road, Bedford - 1942-1944;
Flanders, Ernest George - 4 Apr 1901 - Mill Street, Bedford - 133 Howbury Street, Bedford - 1942-1944;
Foley, Frank Leslie - 29 Mar 1907 - London Road, Bedford - 1942;
Fryer, Eric Leslie - 17 Jun 1909 - Britannia Works, Bedford - 20 Lodge Avenue, Kempston - 1942-1945;
Gatliffe, Thomas Stanley - 29 Oct 1906 - Britannia Works, Bedford - 33 Cardington Road, Bedford - 1942-1944;
Geary, Sidney Charles - 2 Apr 1917 - Leighton Buzzard - 1941;
Gilbert, Frederick George - 14 Oct 1903 - Mill Street, Bedford - 1942-1944;
Glenister, Leonard Maurice - 23 Aug 1908 - Mill Street, Bedford - 1942;
Golder, Frederick William - 1 Apr 1910 - Mill Street, Bedford - 1942;
Goldsmith, Wilfred Frank - 26 May 1901 - London Road, Bedford - 1942-1945;
Grant, Charles - 21 Feb 1906 - Kempston - 1942;
Hall, Doris Anne - 29 Apr 1921 - Mill Street, Bedford - 1942-1945;
Harris, John Robert - 15 Nov 1905 - Mill Street, Bedford - 11 St.Paul's Road, Bedford - 1942-1945;
Harrison, Ronald Sidney - 27 Jan 1913 - Britannia Works, Bedford - 1942-1945;
Harriss, Leslie - 20 Sep 1911 - Mill Street, Bedford - 1942-1943;
Hawkes, Elsie Gladys - Luton - 1941-1944;
Hawkins, Reginald - 14 Oct 1908 - Kempston - 7 Cleveland Road, Kempston - 1942-1945;
Hester, George Edward Charles - Ampthill - 8 Gravel Pit Road, Flitwick - 1942-1944;
Hirst, Edward Albert - 16 Jul 1905 - Britannia Works, Bedford - 1942
Hobbs, Eric George Albert - 26 Nov 1924 - Mill Street, Bedford - 1942-1943;
Hoole, Francis Thomas - 21 Aug 1904 - Bromham Road, Bedford - 5 George Street, Shefford - 1942-1944;
Howard, Gordon James Henry - 3 Oct 1904 - London Road, Bedford - 1942-1945;
Howe, Albert Henry - 2 Mar 1904 - Bedford - 99 Harrowden Road, Bedford; 1942-1948;
Howe, Percival Victor - Cromwell Road, Luton - 1941-1944;
Hutton, Edward Robert - 1 Sep 1908 - Bromham Road, Bedford - 1942-1945;
Hyde, William James - 27 May 1907 - Bromham Road, Bedford - 13 Palmerston Street, Bedford - 1942-1948;
Hyde, Roger Edward Mervyn - 5 Oct 1897 - Britannia Works, Bedford - 1942;
Hyde, Lawrence - 18 Mar 1911 - Leighton Buzzard - 1941-1945;
Keech, Percy John - 11 Feb 1899 - Mill Street, Bedford - 1942-1943;
Kemp, Eric - 4 Feb 1910 - Mill Street, Bedford - 1942-1945;
King, Nancy - 18 Sep 1920 - Biggleswade - 1942-1945
Lazenby, Alfred Charles - 22 Jan 1916 - Mill Street, Bedford - 1942-1944;
Lincoln, Frederick William - 10 Apr 1904 - Britannia Works, Bedford - 288 Bedford Road, Kempston - 1942-1944;
Luck, Reginald George - 22 Aug 1909 - London Road, Bedford - 15 St.John's Street, Kempston - 1942-1945;
Mair, Leslie Murray - 19 Jan 1908 - Dunstable - 1941-1946;
Major, Edward Cyril - 24 Feb 1911 - Leighton Buzzard - 1941-1946;
May, Albert - 8 Sep 1910 - Bromham Road, Bedford - 156 Bower Street, Bedford - 1942-1945;
Mears, Frank - 8 Oct 1904 - Britannia Works, Bedford - 1942-1946;
Minks, John Ernest - 15 May 1904 - Mill Street, Bedford - 1942-1945;
Mitchell, Percival George - 30 Apr 1908 - Bromham Road, Bedford - 1942-1944;
Moir, Herbert Arthur - 17 Jan 1908 - Kempston - 1942;
Monk, Cyril Alfred - 17 Jan 1909 - Britannia Works, Bedford - 22 Rutland Road, Bedford - 1942-1944;
Morris, George - 17 May 1912 - Britannia Works, Bedford - 1942-1945;
Nicholls, Frank - 20 Feb 1914 - Mill Street, Bedford - 1942-1948;
Nicholls, Frederick - 30 Dec 1900 - Bedford - 1945-1948;
Nolan, Violet Vivian - 7 Jan 1919 - Mill Street, Bedford - 1942;
Norris, James William - 5 Jun 1924 - Bromham Road, Bedford - 1942;
Oliver, William Arthur Harry - 14 Mar 1912 - Bromham Road, Bedford - 1942;
Panter, Ronald Joseph - London Road, Bedford - 1942-1945;
Parish, Albert Samuel - 25 Dec 1908 - Mill Street, Bedford - 1942;
Parsley, Percival Robert - 5 Jun 1904 - London Road, Bedford - 1942;
Pearson, Lawrence Ronald - 20 Aug 1901 - Mill Street, Bedford - 108 Risborough Road, Bedford - 1942-1944;
Pendall, Marjorie Phyllis - 24 Mar 1912 - Britannia Works, Bedford - 1942-1943;
Pendall, Reginald Frederick [husband of Marjorie Phyllis] - 21 Sep 1906 - Bedford - 1942-1946;
Perkins, Cecil George - 10 Jun 1908 - Mill Street, Bedford - 91 Denmark Street, Bedford - 1942-1944;
Poulton, William Sidney - 8 Nov 1923 - Bromham Road, Bedford - 1942;
Prentice, Elsie Maud - Dunstable - 1944-1946;
Pruden, Albert Edward - Kempston - 81 Farrer Street, Kempston - 1942-1946;
Purser, Maurice George - 1 May 1912 - Bromham Road, Bedford - 46 Argyll Street, Bedford - 1942-1944;
Quinlan, James - 31 May 1894 - Luton - 1941-1942;
Read, Alfred Joseph - 18 Aug 1904 - Mill Street, Bedford - 52 Nelson Street, Buckingham - 1942-1946;
Roach, Richard John - 5 Apr 1905 - Britannia Works, Bedford - 1942-1944;
Roberts, George Edwin - 15 Dec 1914 - Bromham Road, Bedford - 1942-1943;
Rubython, Dennis George - 20 May 1901 - Bromham Road, Bedford - 69 Garfield Street, Bedford - 1942-1945;
Ruff, Frederick Charles - 6 Jul 1913 - Mill Street, Bedford - 1942-1945;
Saunders, John Thomas - 15 Jan 1887 - Britannia Works, Bedford - 2 Gibbons Road, Bedford - 1942-1944;
Saunderson, John - 28 Oct 1917 - London Road, Bedford - 1942-1943;
Scutchings, Frank - 4 Oct 1907 - Kempston - 2 Highfield Road, Kempston - 1942-1944;
Tarrant, Edward - 23 Nov 1904 - Mill Street, Bedford - 35 King Edward Road, Goldington - 1942-1946;
Thompson, Charlotte Woods - 16 Aug 1923 - Bromham Road, Bedford - 1942-1948;
Thorpe, Harry - 20 May 1901 - Bromham Road, Bedford - 1942-1943;
Todd, John Edward - Bromham Road, Bedford - 13 Dec 1908 - 30 Patteshall Street, Bedford - 1942-1946;
Tysoe, Frederick James - 7 Apr 1910 - Mill Street, Bedford - 1942;
Urin, Horace John - 3 Jan 1914 - Biggleswade - 1942-1943;
Walker, Ronald Sidney - 4 Feb 1924 - Mill Street, Bedford - 1942;
Watson, Charles John - 24 Apr 1908 - Bromham Road, Bedford - 1942-1947;
Waugh, Robert - 2 Dec 1901 - Kempston - 33 Highfield Road, Kempston - 1942-1945;
Webb, George John - 1 Jun 1908 - Mill Street, Bedford - 1942-1944;
Webster, Betty Vi - 9 Mar 1922 - Mill Street, Bedford - 1942-1944;
Webster, Roseline Alexandra - 21 Jun 1922 - Mill Street, Bedford - 1942;
Whiffin, Philip Charles - 18 Aug 1913 - Bedford - 1942-1946;
Whipp, Lilian Flora - 2 Feb 1912 - Britannia Works, Bedford - 1942-1944;
Whipp, Arthur Edward - 6 Dec 1909 - London Road, Bedford - 76a Elstow Road, Bedford - 1942-1945;
White, Victor Thomas - 21 Apr 1902 - Ampthill - Maulden - 1942-1944;
Wildman, Maurice - 3 Sep 1909 - London Road, Bedford - 1942-1943;
Wills, Lawrence Henry William - 9 Sep 1902 - Mill Street, Bedford - 1942;
Yirrell, Edith - 23 Dec 1916 - Leighton Buzzard - 1942-1945;
Young, Reginald Wilfred - Biggleswade - 1942-1943