Second World War Collection

Royal Engineers bomb disposal team at work, [Mar 1941]
Bognor Regis. The men are tying a rope around an unexploded bomb, which has come to rest several feet below a kale field near Shripney Road. The bomb fell on 19 March 1941

Sgt Babbage lighting a cigarette, Bognor, 26 Aug 1940
On the beach at Bognor Regis close to the pier, the rescued pilot is accompanied by policemen and soldiers. Sgt Cyril Babbage belonged to 602 City of Glasgow Squadron, based at Westhampnett

VE Day in High Street, Bognor Regis, 8 May 1945
Many people are dancing to relayed music. L Alouette Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref No: L Alouette/A/1/23/7

Pipe band of the London Irish Rifles [1941]
At the head of a parade along the seafront in Bognor Regis L Alouette Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref No: L Alouette/A/1/10/6

A modified auxiliary fuel tank being filled with beer, Bognor Regis, 1944
A Norwegian fighter pilot, sat on the wing of his Spitfire, looks on. A technician is writing Joy Juice xxx on the fuel tank

Soldiers working on downed Junkers 88, Pagham Harbour, 9 Sep 1940
L Alouette Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref No: L Alouette/A/1/3/37

Downed Junkers 88, Pagham Harbour, 9 Sep 1940
A soldier is pointing out bullet holes on the cockpit. L Alouette Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref No: L Alouette/A/1/3/31

Two men on a gun at Canadian anti-aircraft battery, Felpham, December 1942
They have painted the date (16.12.42) and a swastika on the side of the gun as part of their " claim" to the German Dornier that struck the Bognor Gas Works and crashed on 16 December 1942

Airborne assault gliders being towed by aircraft, Bognor Regis, 6 June 1944
Heading to France to take part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy. Photographer Frank L Alouette West Sussex Record Office Ref. No: L Alouette/A/1/22/2

Free French sailors helping with clear up after air raid, Portsmouth, 1941
Photographer Frank L Alouette West Sussex Record Office Ref. No: L Alouette/A/1/4/44

Reynolds and Co, High Street, Bognor Regis, February 1943
Broken glass from the windows of Reynolds and Co, house furnishers, estate agents and undertakers, being cleared away following an air raid on 5 February 1943

Airborne assault glider being towed by an aircraft, Bognor Regis
Heading to France to take part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy, 6 June 1944 Photographer Frank L Alouette West Sussex Record Office Ref. No: L Alouette/A/1/22/1

A dog sitting on wing of downed Junkers 88 in Pagham Harbour
While soldiers are inspecting the aircraft, 9 Sep 1940 Fank L Alouette Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref. No: L Alouette/A/1/3/36

VE Day street party in Lyon Street, Bognor, 8 May 1945
In the background: St Johns Church and the cleared site of the Sudley Road bombing. L Alouette Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref No: L Alouette/A/1/23/5

Bren Gun Carriers parading past The Arcade, Bognor, 1941
High Street. For the War Weapons Week March 1941. There are people looking out of the windows of the Westminster Bank. The salute was taken, according to the Bognor Regis Observer

Children playing in garden of bombed-out house, [Dec 1940]
[Bognor Regis]. The boy and girl are playing with toys and a damaged dolls house, sometime after the air raid of 27 December 1940

Soldier pointing pistol at fire service personnel
Bognor Regis, [1939-1945]. In a posed photograph outside The Tuck Shop at the junction of Upper Bognor Road (now the High Street) and Gloucester Road

Gun crew in action on the Esplanade, Bognor Regis 1940
Taken at the eastern end of the Esplanade in the Summer of 1940. The domed frontage of the Theatre Royal complex is on the right

Keep left bollard being taken away for scrap [1939]
At Bognor Regis. Workmen are loading it onto the back of a lorry. L Alouette Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref No: L Alouette/A/1/2/3

Soldiers training with rifles and bayonets on the beach [1940]
At Bognor Regis. Two boys with pop-guns are taking part in the bayonet training. L Alouette Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref No: L Alouette/A/1/2/42

Mock-attack on Town Hall, Bognor, by Home Guard
[Jul 1942]. The entrance of the Town Hall has been bricked up to create a surface air raid shelter. There is a Shelter Here - 22 sign. The 1914-1918 War Memorial is shown

Gas attack exercise in London Road, Bognor
[12 Jun 1941]. Showing the shop fronts of J H Dewhurst Ltd (butchers), Maypole Dairy Co Ltd, Lewis (tobacconist), Toogoods (ladies hairdresser), Mac Fisheries Ltd, and Pink and Sons (grocers)

Bognors Civil Defence force helping with paper salvage
[1939-1945]. The men are collecting paper and cardboard from West Street and loading it into a pick-up (the van door is signed Civil Defence Road Repair )

Sandbags being laid outside Post Office, Bognor, 1939
In the High Street; the sandbags are being filled by boys as a policeman in a tin helmet stands nearby L Alouette Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref No: L Alouette/A/1/2/2

Wedding couple, 1942
Bride and Groom on their wedding day. The wartime bride is wearing a hat and coat. George Garland Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref No: Garland N21986

Workmen removing iron railings [1939-1945]
[Bognor Regis] L Alouette Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref No: L Alouette/A/1/2/5

Removal of barbed wire from the Esplanade, Bognor, 1945
L Alouette Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref No: L Alouette/A/1/23/11

Gun emplacement in [Sherwood Road], Bognor
[1939-1945]. Under camouflage netting, Royal Artillery men are taking part in a training session with the gun. L Alouette Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref No: L Alouette/A/1/2/111

Jeanette and Pamela L Alouette, [Nov 1940]
On the Esplanade at Bognor Regis. With four soldiers of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Light Infantry, then on coastal defence duties at Bognor

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