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Brigadier Rupert Crowdy celebrated his 105th birthday March 13th 2015

  • BCA - 2019.1934
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  • 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

Call to fund a national memorial for our Ox & Bucks D-Day heroes. Autumn 2015

  • BCA - 2019.1969
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  • 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

Constance Irene de Hamel

  • BCA - 2023.6825
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  • 1916-2009

PDF copy of the Funeral Service of Constance Irene de Hamel. She had the most interesting life particularly with her war work at the BBC. and there is and interview with her https://youtu.be/xDIGBR6_IiI. It is a sound recording and not a film.

Janet Westman

Constance Irene de Hamel Aug 10th 1916 to November 20th 2009

  • BCA - 2017.1075
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  • November 20th 2009

This is the funeral program from the church service for Constance Irene de Hamel. Constance did many things but is possibly best known for being a continuity announcer during WWII.

Bampton Community Archive

Evacuees to Bampton 1940 and Shirley Boyce's Memoir

  • BCA - 2022.3941
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  • 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

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