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Wartime Bampton

These interview recordings have been made over the past 20 years with people who have grown up, lived or worked in Bampton.

(A21) Ruth Wheeler and Edie Quick Talking About Evacuees in WW2

(A26) Hilda Kent - Her Experiences In The Land Army In WW2

(A27) Arthur Beckley - Life in the Navy in WW2

(A28) Graham Taylor - Crash Of A Wellington Bomber 1945 In Weald

(A2) Edie Foreshew recalls her childhood in Bampton, her early employment and her time in WW2

(A4) Alice Puttock talking about her childhood and her WW2 experiences

(A11) Grace Eeles - Shops, Church & War in Bampton

(A14) Francis Shergold - Life and times in Bampton and WW2

(A17) Major Robert Coleville - Life and times in Bampton and during WW2

(A18) Joyce Cotter (nee Chambers) - Being an evacuee in Bampton 

(A21) Ruth Wheeler and Edie Quick Talking About Evacuees in WW2

(A22) Edie Quick, Ruth and Cyril Wheeler - Life in WW2

(A25) Albert Chambers - Being an evacuee from Bampton in WW2

(A30) Pat Ashbury - Nursing before and during WW2

(A33) Francis Shergold - Life in the army in World War 2

(A34) Chris Timms - Life on a minesweeper in WW2

(A35) Roy Shergold - Life in the home guard and the Royal Navy in WW2

(A38) Stan Smith - His life with the Ox and Bucks regiment in World War 2

(A40) Molly Rose - Her life in the Air Transport Auxiliary in WW2 as a pilot

(A40) Molly R(A41) Kate Wylie - Talking about her life in the WW2 Land army and working in an Aircraft factoryose - Her life in the Air Transport Auxiliary in WW2 as a pilot

(A43) Con de Hamel - BBC announcer in London Blitz

(A44) Graham Taylor - A Schoolboy's War - Memories of WW2

(A45) Bill Drinkwater - Experiences of WW2

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