National Fire Brigade's Union Long Service Medal. Bronze issue with integral 'Ten Years' top brooch bar, & 1 x 'Five Years' clasp. Numbered (2323) and named '1905 Engineer S.F.B. A.J. Brett'

The National Fire Brigades Union issued their '10 Years' long service medals between 1895-1920

Further service clasps for each subsequent '5 years' or qualifying period were awarded to qualifying firemen

The integral top bar brooch and clasp, both complete with their issue reverse fittings

The top integral brooch bar with hinged pin & clasp fittings

Second Officer Albert James Brett (1862-1945), Sandwich Fire Brigade: He served sometime as Second Officer. His father and two brothers each held the position of Chief Officer. He headed the family’s building business, after taking over from his
father

The below following biographical article - with images, was published in the 'Kentish Express' newspaper issue of 28 March 1941:

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MR. AND MRS. A.J. BRETT,

SANDWICH

Mr. and Mrs. Albert James Brett, of, 34 Upper Strand Street, Sandwich, who celebrated the 60th anniversary of their wedding on March 19, having married at the Sandwich Congregational Church in 1881, have a family of just 100. There are eight sons and five daughters still living of a family of eighteen. seventy grandchildren and seventeen great-grandchildren

Born in the town and of a fire-fighting family with over 100 years connection with Sandwich Fire Brigade, Mr. Brett, was himself a member for 26 years and for some time Second Officer, while his father and two of his brothers. Mr. H.H. Brett and Mr. Fred Brett, each held the position of Chief Officer for some years. The tradition is being carried on by three sons and three sons-in-law who are serving in the Sandwich Auxiliary Fire Service. One  son-in-law and five grandsons are in H.M. Forces. In the Great War four sons saw service and all returned safely. For some years until the war Mr. Brett carried on a builder's business which he took over from his father.
He is probably most widely known as a bird fancier, for he has won many trophies and hundreds of prizes at fur and feather shows throughout Kent, and has been a member of the Sandwich, Margate, Ramsgate, Deal and Dover Fanciers Societies. Even to-day at 79 years of age and with eye trouble he hopes to get rectified by an operation, he still takes a very live interest in his hobby of more then sixty years' standing and his garden is a mass of outdoor aviaries where he keeps nearly 50 budgerigars, 16 canaries, several pigeons and a few chicken, as well as a couple of rabbits. Mr. Brett has been a member of Court ''Cinque Ports'' Foresters for more then sixty years.

Mrs. Brett, also 79, hails from Oxford-shire, and like her husband enjoys good health, but her hearing has failed.

About 30 attended a family gathering at the old people's home on Thursday.

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See the Ancestry genealogical website, for the a very detailed family tree that is packed with photographs of the recipient and his family 

Condition: About GVF

Code: 26245