Hi All This guy CWGC :: Casualty Details died in a bomb strike in Liverpool. I know he was an air raid warden, but what does the F.A.P mean please. I know its probably staring me in the face but I cant work it out. cheers Ant
Ant, I believe it to be the abbreviation for First Aid Post. Lots of abbreviated signs made to show the way, were posted on lamp posts and the like. Abbreviations were, and still are used a lot, which cuts down on writing and printing. Regards Tom
found another one here. dovcivac ABBOTT, VICTOR GORDON. Civilian War Dead. Died: 25/10/1940. Age 28. F.A.P. Member; of 3, Council House Street. Dover Kent. Son of W. S. and S. Abbott, of 2, Old Folkestone Road. Dover, Kent. Husband of Violet L. L. Abbott. Died at Limekiln Street. Dover Kent. Dover, Municipal Borough
Cheers Owen I doubt the local newspapers will have info as I expect it was kept out of the press when bombing occured. Would there be any list anywhere for these men?
If my memory serves me, there is an old WW2 FAP sign on the wall of the town hall in Cullumpton in Devon.
just done a search on Geoff's Search Engine. used CIVILIAN & F.A.P got 308 results. Search results for: + CIVILIAN + F.A.P.. records found: 308 This one died at the FAP. Died at Tonge Fold F.A.P., Bury Road. CWGC :: Casualty Details Died at Woodside F.A.P. CWGC :: Casualty Details F.A.P. Attendant. CWGC :: Casualty Details and over 300 like that.
just done a search on Geoff's Search Engine. used CIVILIAN & F.A.P got 308 results. Well done that man
Liverpool Street Underground Station Shelter: A woman has an eye examination at the first aid post of the Liverpool Street Station shelter.
District Nurse Baker pushes her bicycle out of her front gate as she leaves her home on a call. Nurse Baker is in charge of the local First Aid Post and is also on the Invasion Committee.
Most of Springfield's Civil Defence activities are centralised in Chelmsford. This photograph shows Miss J Bird (right) and a colleague setting out medical equipment whilst on duty at the Chelmsford First Aid post. Miss Bird is the daughter of the Home Guard Chief, L G Bird. Her fiance is stationed at Tobruk.
If you look in a thread I started about the Emergency service during WW2 you will see a few examples of these and surgical mobile teams that deployed from either FAP's or Hospitals to bombed building and performed emergency ops at the scene like amputations of trapped limbs for example - Abit like todays Paramedics in First Responder vehices and the Doctors on Air Ambulances.
