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Bus Shelter gift from the Royal Corps of Signals. Sept 12th 1969
The Royal Corps of Signals were at their base in Weald from 1943 until September 1969 after which it was RAF Bampton Castle. Before the Weald station was ready to receive them, they were based in a house in Fox Close off New Road in Bampton. Whe...
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Chris Timms in Navy uniform WWII
Chris Timms was in the Navy during WWII and he's seen here with three other young sailors. He played cricket for Bampton.
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Brigadier Rupert Crowdy OBE. Eulogy, telegram from Norah & funeral program
Brigadier Rupert Crowdy OBE led a very full and very long life, dying less than two months before his 107th birthday. This entry gives you the eulogy given by his grandson Colonel Mike Brooke OBE which gives fascinating detail into Rupert's ...
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Brigadier Rupert Crowdey's photograph album from his time in the Army in India during the Raj
Brigadier Rupert Crowdy OBE born in 1910, trained at Sandhurst early in the C20th and went into the Indian Army. He remained there, with a spell in Burma during WWII, until 1947 when he came back to the UK and went into the British Army. He ran ...
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Women urged not to give up collecting for poppy appeal August 2016
The Royal British Legion is considering a merger of the men's and women's sections. The merger is due to complete in October 2016. Much more in the article
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When Bampton made a fool of itself - March 1900
Of all the events of the South African War none fired the popular imagination to the same extent as Baden Powell’s defence of the little town of Mafeking on the western border of the Transvaal. Its fate would have had little influence of the ulti...
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Blenheim Festival of Flight August 14th 2005
This event took place at Blenheim Palace and many Bampton people went to enjoy the whole day. Apart from celebrating flight through the decades there was much more to see and do and the story of the day is told in the photographs
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Roy Shergold tells about his working life after demob in 1947 to retirement aged 82
Roy Shergold, born c1926, was in the Home Guard in the early days of WWII because he was not old enough to enlist. Once he was 17 in 1943 he joined the Merchant Navy. He got his demob in 1947 and up to his 82nd birthday he had been unemployed fo...
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Big Game License for black bear, pig & leopards March 1926 for N W T Roberts
This licence was issued to N. W. T. Roberts when he was living in the Kashmir region of India and dated September 17th 1938. It could be the what looks like a letter W is an M because it was the property of Michael Roberts.
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This is a photograph of a soldier in WWI uniform on a motorbike
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There are different spellings of the family name of Sheppard but that was not unusual in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. There are census returns, a birth certificate, Short Service paper for WWI volunteer Albert David Sheppard and a ...
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Newspaper articles on RAF Brize Norton 2013-2016
These newspaper articles are all about RAF Brize Norton - the last VC10 to leave Brize Norton; USAF Reserve Command visit the base; Princess Anne joining No47 squadron in ; their celebration of its 100 years; parachute team test freefall jump syst...
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Postcards collected by Hilda Kent, all but one pre WWII
These 14 postcards were collected and saved by Hilda Kent and all but one denote pre WWII scenes. There is one from 1943 showing Stanley Matthews playing football for the RAF. Other subjects are the Queen Mary, a rocket driven bicycle, a stylize...
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Royal British Legion - Bampton Branch, old documents
This is an eclectic mixture of old documents no longer to be kept by the Royal British Legion. The earliest is a legal document regarding the purchase of the land that has our War Memorial standing on it. There are also designs for the War Memor...
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Historic documents of the Royal British Legion, Bampton branch
The date range of these documents begins with a legal document dated April 12th 1920 regarding the purchase of the land where the war memorial now sits. There are several letters to do with our war graves and the National Inventory of War Graves,...
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