Sheffield Blitz firefighter remembered on raid anniversary
BBC News Published image copyrightFamily photo image captionFrederick Parkes Spencer was on duty at the service headquarters at Division Street when the raid started A firefighter killed in the 1940 Sheffield Blitz is among the victims being remembered 80 years after air raids wreaked devastation on the city. Hundreds of people died during German bombing raids over two nights starting on 12 December 1940. Frederick Parkes Spencer was the only full-time police fireman, as they were then known, to be killed. He died, along with auxiliary fireman Stanley Slack, tackling the aftermath of the bomb...
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