A member of the Worthing team that took part in the international manoeuvring competition for British firefighters at the 1900 Paris exhibition, W. S. Bartley ventured further afield the following year when he saw service in South Africa during the Boer War. Responding to a call for volunteers from the ambulance department of the National Fire Brigades’ Union to assist as aid workers in Yeomany hospitals, Bartley, along with fellow fireman G. J. Gravett, spent 12 months tending the ill and wounded during the campaign.
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