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
Sydney Churchyard - Died
at Arnhem
Charlie de Camps - Brandon
resident
Walter Dyer - Brandon
Home Guard & choir
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
George Williamson - Brandon
rifleman
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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