151. Peldon Home Guard photographed outside the Peldon Rose.

No.3 (Peldon) Platoon - D Coy. - 18th. BN. Essex Home Guard
June 1940 - December ...
Date: cDecember 1944
Image ID MMC_P668_001

152. Wivenhoe Shipyard - launch of minesweeper J537. Managing Director Mr Buckingham is standing extreme right, next to Rowhedge manager Frank Butcher. [Rowhedge ...
Date: 1941
Image ID MMC_P668_004

153. WW2 shipyard launch party at Wivenhoe.
Date: c1942
Image ID MMC_P668_005

154. Wivenhoe Shipyard - launch of minesweeper J537.

This was MMS37, completed 18 August 1941 for the Royal Navy, Yard Number 15 [ John Collins ]
Date: 1941
Image ID MMC_P668_006

155. Wivenhoe Shipyard - launch of minesweeper J537.

This was MMS37, completed 18 August 1941 for the Royal Navy, Yard Number 15 [ John Collins ]
Date: 1941
Image ID MMC_P668_007

156. Minesweeper Launching at Wivenhoe Shipyard.
L-R Leonard Archer ?, unknown lady, Agnes Mary Pullen, Mildred Lait (with parasol - Diane Stoker's Aunt), ...
Date: c1941
Image ID MMC_P668_013

157. Wartime ship launch at Wivenhoe ? Unidentified.
Image ID MMC_P668_018

158. Ship launch, probably a wooden minesweeper at Wivenhoe, and either MMS113, MMS114 or MMS115.

There is what looks like a Japanese flag as part of the ...
Date: c1942
Image ID MMC_P668_029

159. West Mersea St. John Ambulance Brigade Ladies - 1939/45 War.
Back row L-R 1. Miss Pat Catchpole [Catchie], 2. Miss Barbara Shiels, 3. Miss Muriel Mills, 4. ...
Date: c1945
Image ID MMC_P788_A

160. I Remember - wartime poem by Dr Jean Hudson.

I remember, I remember, the Mersea ARP.
When we waited at the 'Ready'
Cheered by frequent cups ...
Date: October 1988
Image ID MMC_P788_D_001

161. I Remember - a wartime poem by Dr Jean Hudson - Page 2.
...
I remember, I remember, how all our tasks were planned
By the General at Woodstock, ...
Date: October 1988
Image ID MMC_P788_D_003

162. Ron Pottinger in front of a Hawker Typhoon at Manston in Kent. In March 1944 he was pilot of Typhoon R8895 which crashed in the River Blackwater.
Date: 1943
Image ID MPO_001

163. Ron Pottinger, age 101. Christmas Day 2020. Ron was the pilot of the Typhoon aircraft that crashed in the River Blackwater March 1944.
Date: 25 December 2020
Image ID MPO_003

164. Typhoon R8895 from Bradwell Bay ditching in River Blackwater - Ron Pottinger's diary. Page 1.
All pages are available in the Museum. They have been ...
Date: 22 March 1944
Image ID MPO_011_001

165. A View From The Office, by R.W. Pottinger.
A personal story from the Second World War by Ron Pottinger [who amongst his adventures was having to ditch in a ...
Date: 2004
Image ID MPO_BK1_001

166. Clarence Cudmore - served in Royal Engineers in WW1.
Image ID MRM_006_005

167. Kenneth Bacon, RASC
Date: 1943
Image ID MRM_015_001

168. Harry and his grandparents. Ken Bacon was billeted with them in WW2.
Date: 1946
Image ID MRM_023_003

169. Three sisters who were evacuees with Ken and Daphne Bacon. Miriam can remember her father saying there are 3 little girls waiting to go to a home, and he said ...
Date: 27 August 1950
Image ID MRM_023_007

170. Ken Bacon in RASC WW2 B Platoon 1346
Date: c1945
Image ID MRM_037_001

171. Ken Bacon in RASC WW2 B Platoon 1346
Date: c1945
Image ID MRM_037_003

172. Ken Bacon in RASC WW2 B Platoon 1346
Outside The Fouled Anchor Club
"Reserved for Military by Order"
Image ID MRM_037_005

173. Alfred Tilley Prisoner of War 1940 to 1945.
Stalag X R Ilag, Germany. A Merry Christmas.
Date: December 1941
Image ID MST_ALT_005

174. c1944-45. The making of pontoon floats at Clifford White's old workshops, situated in Kingsland Road, West Mersea. The staff pictured came from Gowens the ...
Date: c1945
Image ID MST_MIS_133

175. Members of the Royal Observer Corps on the church wall.
L-R Ernie Woods, Sid Stoker, Jack Mole, Dick Haward and Richard Haward (not a ...
Date: c1949
Image ID MST_MIS_193

176. Parade on Wings for Victory Week on 25th May 1943 Note by David Mussett : John is on photo on the left near bugler.
...
Date: 25 May 1943
Image ID MST_MIS_261

177. School Air Raid Shelters demolished 10 April 2007. Lots of memories went with these buildings! O.M. Fletcher photo.
The shelters were behind the Legion ...
Date: 10 April 2007
Image ID MST_MIS_319

178. Ian Michell 1927-1945. Air Training Corps.
Son of Mary and Victor Michell.
Image ID NHP_011

179. John Hamilton-Peters and fellow officers at West Mersea. The house is thought to be Cranbrook, now No. 70 Coast Road.
John was stationed in Mersea during ...
Date: c1944
Image ID NHP_019

180. John Hamilton-Peters and fellow officers at West Mersea. The house is thought to be Cranbrook, now No. 70 Coast Road. John was stationed in Mersea during WW2 ...
Date: c1944
Image ID NHP_033