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

  SECOND WORLD WAR

Copyright Valerie Martin 2012

Articles in chronological date order —

  Picnic at Long Furlong Between the Wars
  1939 — Preparation in Findon for the Second World War
  An Evacuee Remembers
  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?
   Findon Was Nearly Targeted by the Wehrmacht
  The Battle of Britain in the Findon area in August 1940
  Secret Establishment at High Salvington Overlooking Findon
  Terry's War Over Findon.
         Eric Masters Remembers Eagle Tag Day.
         Eric Masters Recalls 4th September 1940.    
         Field Trials at Findon
                  Peter Shayler on Wartime Findon
                  Peter Shayler Reminisces
                  Peter Shayler on Wartime Ammunition in Findon — and Courting Couples
  1940 — Dad's Army in Findon
  Dad's Army from 1941
  King Alfred's Lads in Findon
  Harry's War.
 
  Supplementary Rabbit Rations.
  Wartime Schooldays
  Adolf Hitler's Connection with Cissbury Ring
        The Canadians in Findon.
        The Mystery of the Nearby Tin Castles
        Findon Cricket and the Canadians
        Operation Jubilee — 19th August 1942
        The Last Tank
        More On the Tank on o ur Downland
        The Canadian Soldiers and the Jackdaw
        Findon Manor Hotel Revelations
        Up the Glens
                  "John Stepney — Who Was My Father, Mum?"
                  The Hunt for Gerry
                  Gerald Starnes of the Royal Canadian Artillery.
  Peter Sanderson is Posted to Sussex
  Second World War Years in Findon
  Preparing for D-Day in Findon
  The Guns of Broadwater
  Findon's Longest Day — 5th/6th June 1944
  Were the Mysterious  Mulberries Seen From Findon?
  1944 — The Findon Concrete Blocks
  The Danny Fernley Story
  Mike Cooksey Remembers
  1945 The End of the Second World War in Findon
  The Mystery Location of the Cadet Camp in Findon
  Leonard Thomas Sheppard              
  The Long Furlong Connection With A Car Called the Swandean Spitfire Special
  The Windlesham Motor Bomb.
  The 2nd Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
 
  Cissbury Ring Mortar Bomb        
  Cissbury  Relics            
  Mortar on the Western Escarpment.
 
 
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