Air
Attacks
- Enemy bombing raids
on the town during 1940-41
Aux
Units
- Brandon's secret
guerilla fighting force
Cinema
- Listings of what was
on at Brandon's cinema in the war years
Home
Guard - Details
and images of Brandon's Home Guard
Memorial
- Brandon's war
memorial in detail and images
Plane
crash - 1939
a bomber crash lands into trees near Brandon with one fatality.
Royal visit
- King and Queen come
to Brandon, with images
School
- What was happening at
school during the war
School
attack
- 1941 Brandon school
is machine gunned, eyewitness accounts
Singapore
- So many
Brandon men were captured at Singapore
Sounds
- Listen to sounds of
the war and get a feel of the time
Stirling
bomber - Accounts
of service in a local Stirling bomber
Suffolk
Regt
- Details of what the 'Suffolks'
did during the war
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1939
- Start of the war, evacuees
come to town
1940
- ARP exercise,
blackout, 'Buy a bomber', rationing
1941
- School attacked,
King's visit, law and order
1942
- Family tragedy, meat
pies, Brandon
servicemen, Warship week
1943
- Singapore POWs,
Yanks, cyclists fined, Council matters
1944
- Servicemen decorated,
Brandon
magistrates, Salute the Soldier
1945
- A new Government, end
of war,
Singapore POWs come home
1941
War
Weapons
- Brandon's fund
raising efforts to buy three Spitfires
1942
Warship Week - Brandon's
fund raising efforts to adopt a warship
1943
Wings for Victory Week - Brandon's
fund raising toward more aircraft
1944 Salute the Soldier Week - Brandon's
fund raising to pay back the Allied soldiers
 
Post
War Remembrance Parade
- Can you
identify the year of this Parade and perhaps put some names to faces
from that time?
Remembrance
Day 2001-
Images from Brandon's Remembrance Day, 2001
Roll
of Honour WWI - Lists
of names of those men who died during WW1
Roll
of Honour WWII - Lists
of names of those men who died during WW2
Pre
war
- Brandon's history
before the war
Links
- Links to some good
websites, local and historical
NOTICEBOARD
(info) - Do
you have a question, or maybe an answer?
Info
required - Maybe
you can help these people in their search
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George
Arnold
- Request for
info
Les
Bond #1- Home life,
Home Guard
Les
Bond #2 - Active
service
Albert
Carter - Singapore
Bert
Catchpole -
Died as a
Japanese POW
Ena
Espie - Home
life
John
Everett -
George
Medal
Jake
Giacomelli - Canadian
airman
Fred
Harrington - British
Empire Medal
Ken
Harris - Boy
evacuee
Les
Hayward - Barnardo
Boy
Jack
Inns - Bomb
victim, Home
Guard
Olive
Kisiel - Home
life
'Bill'
Linge -
Military
Medal
Dick
Norton - Home
life
Flt
Sgt James Parrott
- Killed in action
L.T.
Mutum - War
correspondent
Harry
Rumsey #1
- Home
life
Harry
Rumsey #2 -
Life as a Brandon boy
Jeanette
Scott - Home
life
Charlie
Wharf - Home
life, Home Guard
Ivan
Williamson - Wounded
at Dunkirk
Lawrence
Yates - Home
Guard
Others ...
Evacuee
murder - Near
Thetford
Bert
Baldry
- Suffolk Regt
Percy
Bradbury
- Suffolk Regt
Kenneth
Savin
- Suffolk Regt
Robert
(Bob) Ungless
- 196 Field Ambulance
(linked to Albert Carter)
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