Joy Burton was born in 1923 in Henley to Thomas Alfred and Clara Burton, of Wokingham.
She lived at 86 Wescott Rd, with her parents, before being stationed to work on the Barrage Balloons in London on an RAF base near Blackheath (RAF Kidbrooke).…
On the 4th October 1940, during World War 2 a Junkers 88 German bomber dropped a 1,000lb high explosive bomb and four oil bombs on Wokingham. The event was witnessed by Walter Percy Fenwick, a postman better known as "Old Havelocker". He was…
In December 1941 the residents of the District of Wokingham were informed that, during their Week for Warships Campaign they would be given the opportunity to raise money by purchasing national war bonds, savings bonds of defence bonds to fund the…
A book entitled, THE WAR ILLUSTRATED being volume 8 edited by Sir. John Hammerton. This is a collection of publications with same title, the first of which is dated May 26 1944.