This is Findon - Wartime

THIS IS FINDON VILLAGE — these Findon Chronicles were created by Valerie Martin, contains scenes from her home village of Findon,
West Sussex, U.K. Everyday stories about real people.

WARTIME

Articles in chronological date order —

1800/1815 — How Napoleon Helped Change the Character of Findon

Downs Edge .....with Napoloenic Thoughts

First World War —

1914 — The Outbreak of the First World War Hits Findon

Findon's War Horses

1914 — Who was left in Findon during the Great War?

1914 — Bob a Job in Findon

1914 — The Constable Family of Findon

1914/1918 — The Great War Years in Findon

1915 — Richard Hollingdale Remembered

1916 — Giants Code Named M-N Seen on the Move from Findon

Hot Potatoes — The Women's Village Council — 1918

The Fourth Year — 1918

The Pratt Family at War

1918 — Private Alwyn Langham

1918 — The End of the Great War in Findon

Picnic at Long Furlong — Between the Wars

Second World War —

1939 — Preparation in Findon for the Second World War

1939 — An Evacuee Remembers (by Gladys Lambourne)

1939 — The Chalk Pit Tunnel on the Downland Above Findon

1940 In Findon

Gladys Labourne Remembers the War

Colonel Thynne's War

Was There a Findon Home Guard Auxiliary Unit?

1940 — Findon Was Nearly Targeted by the Wehrmacht

Battle of Britain —

1940 — The Battle of Britain in the Findon area in August

The High Salvington Messerschmitt 109 — 14th August 1940

The High Salvington Heinkel — 16th August 1940

Derek Round's Dilemma — 16th August 1940

The High Salvington Dornier That Wasn't

1940 — The Battle of Britain in the Findon area in September

The High Salvington Messerschmitt Bf-110 — 4th September 1940

Secret Establishment at High Salvington Overlooking Findon

Terry's War Over Findon

Eric Masters

1940 — Eric Masters Remembers Eagle Tag Day

1940 — Eric Masters Recalls 4th September 1940

1953 — Field Trials at Findon

Peter Shayler (1929-2004)

Peter Shayler on Wartime Findon

Peter Shayler Reminisces

Peter Shayler on Wartime Ammunition in Findon

1940 — Dad's Army in Findon

Dad's Army from 1941

1941 — Two Spitfires Downed in Findon — at Tolmare Farm and Mill House

Findon in the Daily Sketch — 1941

1941 — Harry's War

Bill Day's Rationing Memories

Supplementary Rabbit Rations

Wartime Schooldays

Adolf Hitler's Connection with Cissbury Ring

The Canadians

1941 — The Canadians in Findon

1941 — The Mystery of the Nearby Tin Castles

Findon Cricket and the Canadians

Operation Jubilee — 19th August 1942

1942 — The Last Tank

1942 — More On the Tank on our Downland

1942 — The Canadian Soldiers and the Jackdaw

1943 — Up the Glens

John Stepney's Story

Who Was My Father, Mum?

The Hunt for Gerry

Gerald Starnes of the Royal Canadian Artillery

1941 — Peter Sanderson is Posted to Sussex

1941 — A Teddy Bear Lives to Tell the Tale — Herbert Dieterle's Parachute

1941/42 — Second World War Years in Findon

1943 — Hawker Typhoon Crash on the Findon Downs

Typhoon Pilot and/or Artist?

1943 — Preparing for D-Day in Findon

1944 — Findon's Longest Day — 5th/6th June 1940

1944 — Billy Patience

1944 — Were the Mysterious Mulberries Seen From Findon?

1944 — Findon's Concrete Blocks

The Danny Fernley Story — Including A Hug From Marilyn

Mike Cooksey Remembers

1945 — The End of the Second World War in Findon

1945 — Leonard Thomas Sheppard

1950s — The Long Furlong Connection With A Car Called the Swandean Spitfire Special

1974 —The Windlesham Mortar Bomb

1985 — The 2nd Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

2002 — Danger — Unexploded Bomb — Please Call the Police

2003 — Cissbury Ring Mortar Bomb

2005 — Cissbury Relics

2005 — Mortar on the Western Escarpment

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THIS IS FINDON VILLAGE — was launched by Valerie Martin in January 1999 and will grow to be a historical record of life in Findon, West Sussex, U.K.

E:mail: valeriemartin@findonvillage.com