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Horncastle Virtual VE Day Exhibition

Horncastle Virtual VE Day Exhibition

1945-2020 | Remembering VE Day & the Town in Wartime

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    • Horncastle Rejoices on VE Day
    • Soldiers in Town
    • Horncastle soldiers around the world
      • Joining Up
      • Norway – B Company into Battle
    • Air Raids and the Aspidistra
    • Home Front Horncastle
      • Defence of the Town
      • Rationing and Making Do
      • Evacuees in Town
      • War Effort & Entertainments
    • The War in the Countryside
    • Roll of Honour
    • Postwar recovery?
      • Danger Remained in the Countryside
      • Prisoners of War on the Doorstep
      • Rationing & Restraint
      • Putting Our Houses in Order
      • Sanitation to Rival Concentration Camp
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Tag: Holbeck

Soldiers in Town

Although today you would struggle to find any trace of it, hundreds of soldiers were stationed in and around Horncastle during the war.

Algiers, BBC Peoples War, billet, clothes, Dennis Keen, Diary, Drill Hall, Fashion, Holbeck, Hull, Imperial War Museum, Joseph Ratcliffe, Lesley Dixon, Letter, Mablethorpe, Nissen Hut, North Africa, Police, Post Office, railway station, Ronald Elliott, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, Shirley Bell, Sicily, Skegness, St Mary's Church, St Marys Church, Stanhope Hall, Tower Hamlet Rifles, Training, Wedding, Yorkshire Moors
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