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Our L'Alouette Gallery

Wartime photographs of Frank L'Alouette of Bognor

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Royal Engineers bomb disposal team at work, [Mar 1941]

Sgt Babbage lighting a cigarette, Bognor, 26 Aug 1940

Gun Crew on the Esplanade, Bognor Regis 1940

Soldiers working on downed Junkers 88, Pagham Harbour, 9 Sep 1940

Downed Junkers 88, Pagham Harbour, 9 Sep 1940

Pipe band of the London Irish Rifles [1941]

Onlookers Gathered Around Wreckage of German Bomber, East or West Wittering 1940

Soldiers Throwing Gas Cannisters on the Beach, Bognor Regis, 1939 - 45

Gun Emplacement in Sherwood Road, Bognor Regis 1939 - 1945

Soldiers putting up barbed wire entanglements on the seafront, Bognor Regis 1940

Bognor Regis: soldier throwing gas canister on the beach 1939-1945

Duke of Gloucester inspecting the sea defences, Bognor Regis 1940

Featured L'Alouette Print

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. He was shot down in his Spitfire off Bognor during the Battle of Britain. The pier can be seen in the background; the central section is missing, removed to prevent the Germans from using it as a landing stage.
L'Alouette Collection
West Sussex Record Office Ref No: L'Alouette/A/1/3/21

Prince Edward of Kent and Princess Alexandra of Kent, Bognor Regis, February - March 1945

Men of The Royal Artillery moving barrel of gun, Bognor Regis 1940

Soldiers Throwing Gas Cannisters on the Beach, Bognor Regis, 1939 -1945

Gun Emplacement in Sherwood Road Bognor Regis 1939

Bognor Regis: men of Royal Artillery moving barrel of gun

Soldier pointing pistol at fire service personnel

VE Day in High Street, Bognor Regis, 8 May 1945

VE Day street party in Lyon Street, Bognor, 8 May 1945

Bren Gun Carriers parading past The Arcade, Bognor, 1941

Sandbags being laid outside Post Office, Bognor, 1939

Frank L'Alouette's photographic shop, 1930s

Jeanette and Pamela L'Alouette, [Nov 1940]

Featured L'Alouette Print

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. It may be an exercise by the army in rounding up "Fifth Columnists". The fire service personnel have hoses attached to the back of a fire engine. [The building was demolished in 1968].
L'Alouette Collection
West Sussex Record Office Ref No: L'Alouette/A/1/2/103

Children playing in garden of bombed-out house, [Dec 1940]

Soldiers training with rifles and bayonets on the beach [1940]

Mock-attack on Town Hall, Bognor, by Home Guard

Gas attack exercise in London Road, Bognor

Bognor's Civil Defence force helping with paper salvage

VE Day in the High Street, Bognor Regis, 8 May 1945

Workmen removing iron railings [1939-1945]

Gun emplacement in [Sherwood Road], Bognor Regis

Featured L'Alouette Print

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). There is a Thomas Baldwin Ltd (electrical and radio engineers) van and a car (registration number FPO 88) parked in the street.
L'Alouette Collection
West Sussex Record Office Ref No: L'Alouette/A/1/2/124

Removal of barbed wire from the Esplanade, Bognor, 1945

Gun emplacement in [Sherwood Road], Bognor

Gun crew in action on the Esplanade, Bognor Regis 1940

'Keep left' bollard being taken away for scrap [1939]