firewatcher

During the War he also played a role in Civil Defence, serving as a firewatcher.

During the World War II, Tubbs was not in services for medical reason, and worked as firewatcher.

He spent the Second World War in Britain as a firewatcher and intelligence officer having been exempted from active service on medical grounds.

If a savage element persists, it is the modern savagery of the Blitz which, physically, as a firewatcher, Eliot attempted to assuage.

In fact, he saved the life of a fellow firewatcher by pushing him out of the way of a falling tree which had come crashing down after a bomb fell near it.

All the previous generation of my family were involved in WWII: My Father being Glider Pilot, and my Mother being a firewatcher.

Up until 1940 she designed her own gowns, but in August she volunteered as a firewatcher, which revived her chronic rheumatism, so on the LPO tours she had to wear a plaster cast encasing her shoulder and back.

His pseudonym may have been taken from the lyric of 'Penny Lane' where a fireman 'rushes in from the pouring rain' and could also be a nod to his father, Jim McCartney, a firewatcher on the Liverpool docks in the Second World War.

Reputed sightings included one in the boiler room of the house, early in the 20th century; two in quick succession by a World War II firewatcher, first on the main staircase then on the parapet of the roof; and one by a security guard.