Remembrance Sunday 1948 – article reprinted in November 2018 with added biographical details about Sir Brian Horrocks, who took the salute in 1948.
Content with category: Wartime
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Memories of life as a 7-year old wartime evacuee, sent on 1 September 1939 from a modest home in Portsmouth to a huge house in Southdown Road.
70 years on, Jeannie Yonge remembers her wartime wedding in Compton
The story of local man Lt Col Edward Carse OBE, First Buckinghamshire Battalion, who is remembered on the War Memorial in Shawford Down
Jim Newton: the soldier from Georgia who married a Hampshire girl he had met in the war and settled with his family in Shawford