the firemen. The blitz abated and the crews were sent home without going into the city.
Prior to D-Day the Codsall crew was sent down to Plymouth in case they were needed after the D-Day landings. The A.F.S. were treated as full-time firemen and were paid accordingly. The shifts worked were three days and nights on duty and three days and nights off.
DAILY ROUTINE
I was the PE Instructor for the group, after receiving training in Penn from Mr Heyhoe, Wolver-hampton borough PE Advisor. Early every morning the crews exercised on the tennis court at the Terrace. On one occasion, when returning from PE instruction on my bicycle and in full uniform, I went to assist at a factory fire which I came across on the way back to Codsall. I reached Codsall minus my service gas mask. This was returned six months later. The crew of six, who manned the tender, included two gardeners, a farmer, a cost clerk, a carpenter and a driver. I had registered for the Navy but failed the medical because of defective hearing. I subsequently resigned from the AFS and went to work for ICI. |
