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Soldier in WW1 Uniform

  • BCA - 2022.3752
  • Item
  • 1914-1918

Soldier in Military Uniform
possibly Ernest Daniels

Janet Westman

Jack and Godfrey Horne in fancy dress in 1924

  • BCA - 2019.1972
  • Item
  • 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

Article on Bampton 1939

  • BCA - 2022.3845
  • Item
  • 6th October 1939

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.

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

Clothing Appeal Poster for Liberated Europe

  • BCA - 2022.3734
  • Item
  • 1945

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

Janet Westman

Instructions for wearing the ribbon; WWII medal

  • BCA - 2017.1090
  • Item
  • 1939-1945

This letter and piece of ribbon was sent to Dor Thompson, World War Two and explains how the ribbon should be used with the medal.

Bampton Community Archive

Airman, Reg Smith, married Albert Radband's sister, Beryl Joan Radband.

  • BCA - 2019.1959
  • Item
  • 1950s

Airman, Reg Smith, married Albert Radband's sister, Beryl Joan Radband.
He was the brother of twins Peggy and Dolly.
Godfather of Jamie Wheeler.
Marion Paintin said "Joan and Reg had two children Linda and Michael who married my sister Susan and they live at Brading on the Isle of Wight."
Lyn Dunsby said "Linda lives in Lowestoft. She keeps in touch with my mum (Ruth Wheeler.) Joan was my mum's friend but we always called her Aunty Beryl as that was her other name."

Bampton Community Archive

Celebrating the home coming of Yvette Bovington's son Pierre from the Falklands war

  • BCA - 2021.2626
  • Item
  • 1982

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
  6. Pierre, Yvette’s son back from Falklands
  7. Billy Mathews
  8. Jane Willis
  9. Mrs Betty Hickman, the butcher’s wife

Bampton Community Archive

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