Newspaper Cutting about a dig on the Brize Norton Airfield which has uncovered several different types of aircraft bits from 45 German aircraft captured by the Allies in 1945 and taken to the base for testing, and USA aircraft from the time that the USAF were based at Brize in 1950's. These will be displayed at the RAF Brize Norton Heritage Centre

OFF THE BEATEN TRACK Impressions of a visit to Bampton
Article in North Wilts Herald dated 6th October 1939. Signed by NOMAD.
Reporting the approach of War, and the at The Manor may be used as a hospital.

Soldier in Military Uniform
possibly Ernest Daniels

Public looking at exhibits of WW1 memorabilia held in Bampton Museum Vesey room 2004

Poster asking for Clothing Donations for Liberated Europe,
Oxford Committee for Famine Relief
War Charities Act 1940
Printed by Hall the Printer Littlegate Oxford

Pierre Bovington, the son of Yvette is welcomed back home from the Falklands War in 1982. In the photograph are

1. Herbert Lock, son of Bill
2. Ron Hickman – butcher
3. Henry Willis
4. Betty Lock
5. Yvette Bovington
7. Pierre, Yvette’s son back from Falklands
8. Billy Mathews
9. Jane Willis
10. Mrs Betty Hickman, the butcher’s wife

A talk about the arms industry during the First World War and beyond will be held at the village hall in October 2014. Sue Smith and Symon Hill gave the talk on October 23rd.

This letter, dated November 1st 1944 was send by Stan Smith's commanding officer to Stan's father informing him that Stan was missing but may be a POW. He was a POW and near the end of the was became one of the POWs who took part in the what became known as the Long March. They were marched from East Germany keeping ahead of the advancing Russians. Stan walked almost 1,000 miles. He survived.