David Elward WWII. Evan David Elward left the coal mines to join the RAF. He arrived at RAF Brize Norton just before the outbreak of WW11. As a sergeant, he was posted to the Far East and saw service in India and Burma. In 1941 , he married Bamptonian Vera Tanner after meeting at a dance in the Village Hall, organised by Mrs. Glenister, wife of the railway Station Master. After the war, David spent the rest of his life in Bampton, the village he loved. He had two daughters with Vera, Jean (Jones) and Janet (Newman).

My Bampton Memories of VE Day 1945 by Don Rouse This two page account of a very important event, from the eyes of eight year old Don Rouse, from Weald.

These are photographs of Major Robert Colvile starting with one when he was about 3 years old

Black and white Photograph of Walter Lay and Bob Woodley prior to enlisting in the army in WWII.
Walter was killed September 13th 1918 and Bob was killed October 17th 1915

Tommy Gerring in WWII uniform.

Three men possibly on Home Guard duty including George Bishop on the right in WWII sitting on Mill Bridge
photo from Frank Hudson

Molly Rose - Service of Thanksgiving- 2016

Marjorie Inkster, 76 pages relating to her her wartime work in REME along with her sister Brenda and brother Frazer.
Book written by Marjorie, entitled Bow and Arrow War from FANY to Radar in World War II.
Brenda Inkster was born in 1917 and on leaving school spent some years in France and Germany. She studied at Heidelberg University and apparently eventually spoke German almost like a native.
Brenda joined the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (F.A.N.Y.) in 1940, driving ambulances and staff cars, but was soon absorbed into Intelligence at Chester, because of her knowledge of German. From there she went to Bletchley Park (having collected a commission on the way) She stayed there until nearly the end of the ear, ending up as a Junior Commander in B.O.A.R., ferreting-out ex-Nazis.

After a five-year art training in the post-war period, she was invited to work in the Ministry of Defence. Having suffered from cancer since the age of thirty, she eventually had to retire and go to live with her sister Marjorie. The sisters came together to live in Bampton, at Grove Cottage in 1963 She died, after marvellous medical care, in 1993.

History of RAF Bampton Castle & the Signal Unit for an exhibition by Cprl David Duncan
58 page document relating the history of the The Signals at Bampton Castle from 1939

Bertie Stroud, father of Roy and Rita