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The National Firefighters Memorial is a memorial composed of three bronze statues depicting firefighters in action at the height of the Blitz. It is located on the Jubilee Walkway to the south of St Paul's Cathedral in the City of London, and it is approachable from the south bank of the River Thames via the Millennium Footbridge.
The monument, originally the concept of Cyril Demarne, was commissioned by the Firefighters Memorial Charitable Trust set up in 1990. It was sculpted by John W. Mills. Initially, the structure was intended as a tribute to those men and women who fought so gallantly against fire on the streets of London during the Blitz of World War II, when the city was struck by bombs on 57 consecutive nights in a sustained campaign of bombing. It also served as a monument to commemorate the service of firefighters throughout the war. Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother unveiled the memorial on 4 May 1991.
It was decided in 1998 to make the memorial a national monument that would commemorate not just the firefighters who died in World War II, but the lives of all firefighters throughout the United Kingdom who were killed in the line of duty. The National Firefighters Memorial was moved from its original site in Old Change Court, the plinth was elevated by a little over 1 m, and the names of all those killed in peacetime were added.
The Princess Royal, patron of the Firefighters' Memorial Charitable Trust, attended a service and ceremony of re-dedication on 16 September 2003. A total of 1,192 names were inscribed in bronze onto the memorial.
A service of remembrance is held at the memorial annually on the Sunday closest to 7 September, the anniversary of the start of the Blitz.
The monument, originally the concept of Cyril Demarne, was commissioned by the Firefighters Memorial Charitable Trust set up in 1990. It was sculpted by John W. Mills. Initially, the structure was intended as a tribute to those men and women who fought so gallantly against fire on the streets of London during the Blitz of World War II, when the city was struck by bombs on 57 consecutive nights in a sustained campaign of bombing. It also served as a monument to commemorate the service of firefighters throughout the war. Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother unveiled the memorial on 4 May 1991.
It was decided in 1998 to make the memorial a national monument that would commemorate not just the firefighters who died in World War II, but the lives of all firefighters throughout the United Kingdom who were killed in the line of duty. The National Firefighters Memorial was moved from its original site in Old Change Court, the plinth was elevated by a little over 1 m, and the names of all those killed in peacetime were added.
The Princess Royal, patron of the Firefighters' Memorial Charitable Trust, attended a service and ceremony of re-dedication on 16 September 2003. A total of 1,192 names were inscribed in bronze onto the memorial.
A service of remembrance is held at the memorial annually on the Sunday closest to 7 September, the anniversary of the start of the Blitz.
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Some local firemen earned their stripes here recently, in Nashville TN. Apartment fire, and they bravely manned a breezeway of the burning building, to stop the spread of the fire. I can only imagine it, the local helicopter news crew even caught shots of some of the firemen on the roof, near to where burning was still going, getting water down into it... On a burning roof, three stories high... that takes C.O.Jones...
Then, as this monument reminds us, there were so many such scenes of incredible bravery, even when completely out-flanked, and undermanned against such an adversary. Yet they didn't lay down and give up, they fought on, bravely. They saved lives, they saved property.
Interesting side note (ADD of me, I know), but I remember someone posting to FA some years ago, about a story where firemen saved some badgers from a fire. And needless to say, were extremely upset when they were later informed that the local police department had killed the badgers, siting something like, not being able or equipped to find a home for them. Because, to a fireman, death is the number one enemy. And life, -all- life is to be saved if at all possible. Be that a human victim of a fire, or any other species.
Some local firemen earned their stripes here recently, in Nashville TN. Apartment fire, and they bravely manned a breezeway of the burning building, to stop the spread of the fire. I can only imagine it, the local helicopter news crew even caught shots of some of the firemen on the roof, near to where burning was still going, getting water down into it... On a burning roof, three stories high... that takes C.O.Jones...
Then, as this monument reminds us, there were so many such scenes of incredible bravery, even when completely out-flanked, and undermanned against such an adversary. Yet they didn't lay down and give up, they fought on, bravely. They saved lives, they saved property.
Interesting side note (ADD of me, I know), but I remember someone posting to FA some years ago, about a story where firemen saved some badgers from a fire. And needless to say, were extremely upset when they were later informed that the local police department had killed the badgers, siting something like, not being able or equipped to find a home for them. Because, to a fireman, death is the number one enemy. And life, -all- life is to be saved if at all possible. Be that a human victim of a fire, or any other species.
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