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Thanksgiving For Victory Service 1945

  • BCA - 2017.674
  • Item
  • 1945

This is the Service program for the Thanksgiving Service for Victory held in 1945. As the service sheet was printed in London it was probably a standard service to be held across the UK

Nik Stanbridge

Soldier in WW1 Uniform

  • BCA - 2022.3752
  • Item
  • 1914-1918

Soldier in Military Uniform
possibly Ernest Daniels

Janet Westman

Oxford Mail 75th Anniversary Edition VE Day

  • BCA - 2022.3866
  • Item
  • 2020

Special Edition for 75th Anniversary of VE Day. Articles about how people celebrated VE Day at the end of the War 2 in and around Oxford.

Janet Westman

Evacuees to Bampton 1940 and Shirley Boyce's Memoir

  • BCA - 2022.3941
  • Item
  • 1940-43

Shirley Boyce was an Evacuee to Bampton during World War II and has written an account of her time in Bampton staying at a Manor House (Weald Manor?). Which had been divided into flats. She later stayed in Aston. The photo is of evacuated children from Bow, London playing in the grounds of Weald Manor in 1940. Two boys Kenny Howe and Leslie Tucker were billeted in New Road with Mr and Mrs Whighting?

Janet Westman

Stan Smith, reported missing in WWII

  • BCA - 2021.2564
  • Item
  • November 1st 1944

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.

Bampton Community Archive

Service of Remembrance by the War Memorial August 4th 2014

  • BCA - 2022.3821
  • Item
  • August 4th 2014

On August 4th 2014 a short service of Remembrance was held by the War Memorial in the Market Square, in remembrance of the outbreak of WWI. Reverend David Battersby conducted the service and Gary Gummer held the Standard of the Royal British Legion.

Janet Rouse

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