The Firefighters Memorial Charitable Trust was established in 1990.
The Trust negotiated a site to the south of St Paul’s Cathedral
where a suitable memorial could be placed. It is at the top of the new
City Walkway which is also approachable from the south bank of the Thames
via the new Millennium Pedestrian Bridge,.
The National Memorial, to the men and women of the United Kingdom
Fire Service, who had made the ultimate sacrifice in the defence of
the realm in World War II, is the “Blitz” Memorial Statue,
commissioned by the Founder Master of the Worshipful Company of Firefighters.
The very moving sculpture in bronze was the work of John Mills a very
skilled artist. Rarely do you see such a work of art with three
life sized bronze figures actively engaged in their professional duties.
In 2003 the Memorial was elevated and the additional names of those
lost in peacetime were inscribed in bronze on the raised base.
The Memorial was re-dedicated to coincide with the Service of Remembrance
in Sept 2003. A total of some 1,192 names were added in bronze
to the Memorial.
(picture right: by kind permission of London Fire
Brigade)
