The Army Fire Service (AFS), later called the Army Department Fire Service, was the fire service which performed
firefighting
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duties on
British Army
The British Army is the principal Army, land warfare force of the United Kingdom. the British Army comprises 73,847 regular full-time personnel, 4,127 Brigade of Gurkhas, Gurkhas, 25,742 Army Reserve (United Kingdom), volunteer reserve perso ...
camps. Its personnel were largely soldiers until 1959, when the fire service was civilianised. Until 1965 it was administratively part of the
Royal Army Service Corps
The Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) was a corps of the British Army responsible for land, coastal and lake transport, air despatch, barracks administration, the Army Fire Service, staffing headquarters' units, supply of food, water, fuel and do ...
but under the
McLeod Reorganisation of Army Logistics it was transferred to
Royal Army Ordnance Corps
The Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC) was a corps of the British Army. At its renaming as a Royal Corps in 1918 it was both a supply and repair corps. In the supply area it had responsibility for weapons, armoured vehicles and other military equi ...
sponsorship. Under both corps it was semi-autonomous and had its own insignia, such as
cap badge
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and
stable belt.
The Army Department Fire Service later amalgamated into the
Ministry of Defence Fire Service.
Defunct fire and rescue services of the United Kingdom
British administrative corps
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