arm band; SFP
Production date
1939-1941
Description
Navy blue canvas band with SFP painted in red. SPF stands for Supplementary Fire Parties (SFP) .
According to the IWM "Fire Watchers were recruited (composed of men up to the age of 63 years) and posted at night to overlook factories, warehouses and other industrial buildings. Each night they would take to their posts (often in danger during raids) and report which buildings were hit before the fire took hold. Armed with portable stirrup-pumps, protective helmets and sand-filled buckets, Supplementary Fire Parties (recruited by the fire service) & Street Fire Parties (recruited by the ARP), would watch over residential properties in the same way that Fire Watchers oversaw industrial structures, but also to intervene and stop small fires from spreading. From 1941 all were to become the Fire Guard, controlled by local authorities but trained to a national standard."
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