T / 4 / Border (4th Bn Border Regiment) Brass Army metal shoulder title
16/5L (16/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers) Officers - Small Brass Army...
IXL (9th Queen's Royal Lancers) 36.5mm Wide Brass Army metal shoulder...
Parachute Regiment FR White Metal QC. Other Ranks' collar badge
West Yorkshire Regiment (The Prince Of Wales's Own) 1st Volunteer Bn...
Royal Army Medical Corps (Officers') 1898-1902 FL - Small Silver-plate...
King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) (Gold Colour) FR - Lion 53mm Wide...
Gunlayer Armourer - Crossed Guns + GA Trade - Gold On Navy Bullion...
Please note that we deal in original insignia for collectors - we are not wholesale suppliers of fire service buttons.
During World War 2, Fire Brigades were brought under central Government control (nationalised) in 1941 in order to be able to quickly share resources across the UK...
Please note that we deal in original insignia for collectors - we are not wholesale suppliers of fire service buttons.
During World War 2, Fire Brigades were brought under central Government control (nationalised) in 1941 in order to be able to quickly share resources across the UK.
From 1941-1948, all Fire Brigades in the UK wore the same design of NFS (National Fire Service) button. In 1948, Fire Services returned to a regional structure under local authority control and adopted separate designs for the buttons and badges of each town and county Fire Service.
In 1974 there was a major re-structure of UK counties and the names of many fire brigades changed as a result.
Most of the buttons on our catalogues are from UK town and county fire brigades and date from 1948 to the present day.
Fire Brigade buttons tend to be chromium plated - this is shown as chrome on our button catalogues. Older (pre-1941) Fire Brigade buttons are often brass.
Button diameters are shown in millimetres, measured to the nearest half-millimetre.
West Bromwich Fire Brigade 23mm - 1966-1974 Chrome-plated Fire Service uniform button
West Midlands Fire Service (Map Centre) 17mm Chrome-plated Fire Service uniform button
West Midlands Fire Service (Map Centre) 19mm Chrome-plated Fire Service uniform button
West Midlands Fire Service (Map Centre) 24.5mm Chrome-plated Fire Service uniform button
West Midlands Fire Service (Shield Centre) 19.5mm Chrome-plated Fire Service uniform button
West Midlands Fire Service (Shield Centre) 24.5mm Chrome-plated Fire Service uniform button
West Riding County Fire Service (with Lettering) 17mm (Shield) Chrome-plated Fire Service uniform button
West Riding County Fire Service (with Lettering) 24mm (Shield Design) Chrome-plated Fire Service uniform button
West Sussex Fire Brigade (no Coronet) 17mm Chrome-plated Fire Service uniform button
West Sussex Fire Brigade (no Coronet) 24mm Chrome-plated Fire Service uniform button
West Sussex Fire Brigade (with Coronet) 16.5mm Chrome-plated Fire Service uniform button
West Sussex Fire Brigade (with Coronet) 24mm Chrome-plated Fire Service uniform button
West Yorkshire Fire Service 16.5mm - Post-1962 Chrome-plated Fire Service uniform button
West Yorkshire Fire Service 24mm - Post-1962 Chrome-plated Fire Service uniform button
Western Area Fire Brigade (Scotland) 24mm - 1948-1975 Chrome-plated Fire Service uniform button
Westland Aircraft Fire Section (Westland Helicopters 25.5mm Chrome-plated Fire Service uniform button
Westmorland Fire Brigade 24mm - Post 1948 Chrome-plated Fire Service uniform button
Willsden Borough Council Fire Brigade 17mm - Pre-1941 Brass Fire Service uniform button
Wiltshire Fire Brigade 17mm Chrome-plated Fire Service uniform button
Wiltshire Fire Brigade 24mm Chrome-plated Fire Service uniform button
Wolverhampton Fire & Ambulance Service (No Words) 17.5mm - 1948-1974 Chrome-plated Fire Service uniform button
Wolverhampton Fire & Ambulance Service 24mm - 1948-1974 Chrome-plated Fire Service uniform button
Worcestershire Fire Brigade 16.5mm Chrome-plated Fire Service uniform button
York Fire Brigade 24mm - Post 1948 Chrome-plated Fire Service uniform button