Two silk cards sent by Albert Townsend from France in WWI, to his family, in 1917
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Two silk cards sent by Albert Townsend from France in WWI, to his family, in 1917
Nik Stanbridge
RAF Signal Station, Weald having annual inspection April 1993
RAF Signals station at Weald. The air officer supporting Air Command carrying out the annual inspection in April 1993
Bampton Community Archive
Lighter with the USAF 5th Air Force crest; it was in the Pacific from 1942.
"The crest on the lighter is that of the USAF 5th Air Force that has been based in the Pacific since 1942. Brize Norton air base was handed to the USAF in 1951 and returned to the RAF in 1965.
Bampton Community Archive
British Legion Christmas party gathering
These ladies were at a British Legion Christmas gathering in the early 1960s.
Bampton Community Archive
21st birthday of the women's section British Legion football match v men
21st birthday celebration of the women's section British Legion with a football match v men.
Bampton Community Archive
Jack and Godfrey Horne in fancy dress in 1924
Jack and Godfrey Horne in fancy dress in 1924.Godfrey Horne was killed in action in France. He was in one of the Guards regiments in WWII
Bampton Community Archive
Call to fund a national memorial for our Ox & Bucks D-Day heroes. Autumn 2015
Witney Gazette, autumn 2015. Call to fund a national memorial for our Ox & Bucks D-Day heroes. Fitting tribute: The design for the memorial to the 2nd Battalion D Company of the Ox and Bucks Light Infantry’s heroic Pegasus Bridge operation
Bampton Community Archive
Brigadier Rupert Crowdy celebrated his 105th birthday March 13th 2015
Brigadier Rupert Crowdy OBE served in the army in India and Burma and afterwards he organised the 'shipping' of coal into Berlin during the Berlin Siege. In 1962 he was appointed Aide-de-Camp to the Queen.
Bampton Community Archive
Peter Davis and his exhibition in the Old Grammar School about Witney Airfield 2015
Witney Gazette June 24th 2015.
Peter Davis from Church Street put on a detailed and very interesting exhibition for the Bampton Community Archive in the Old Grammar School, Church Close about the Witney Airfield. The only suggestion of an airfield in the area now is in the names of three local roads, De Havilland Way, Range Road and Richard Jones Road.
Damaged Spitfires and Hurricanes aircraft damaged during WWII were serviced here. The airfield was important in both WWI and WWII. It opened in 1918 and closed in 1951.
The site was used as an RAF training unit, a base for tennis, horse racing and motorcycle speedway as well as for Witney and Oxford Aero Club and Witney Aeronautical College.
The catalogue of this exhibition, full of really interesting photos of the airfield is still on sale in the Vesey room.
Bampton Community Archive
Private William Johnson Ox & Bucks Light Infantry 5th Battalion 10677 A Company. His granddaughter Pamela Smith has put together these items.
William was the first young man in Bampton to volunteer and the town awarded him a clock for this. He was also the first soldier to be awarded the Military Medal. This account by Pamela recounts his battles, the conditions, Christmas and much more.
Only five different medals were struck during the war and William was award four.
A newspaper account of the home-coming of William January 1916. William had already been award the Distinguished Conduct Medal for bravery in the field for recovering lieutenant Wood. He was met at Bampton & Brize Norton station by Mr Alfie Bryant in a car kindly lent by Mr Collett. A rapturous welcome awaited him in Bampton and he was presented with a handsome marble clock inscribed "Presented by friends in Bampton to Pte William Johnson O.B.L.I. on being awarded the DCM for gallantry in action 1915.
Bampton Community Archive