91. No One Volunteered AS the 13th Man! Tollesbury's Fame in the Navy
Reporter finds that in the little fishing village of Tollesbury, as many as 12 ... Date: 2 October 1943 Image ID IA004812 |
92. World War 2 Battery Observation Post at Cudmore Grove. It was the observation post for the Coastal Artillery battery located here in WW2. Erosion has since ... Date: 1970s Image ID IA01_WW2_003 |
93. Found underneath the wallpaper in an upstairs room at 120 Coast Road West Mersea. Blackboard for a list of Billets, and on another wall, a board for a list of ... Date: 1996 Image ID IA04_181 |
94. Found underneath the wallpaper at 120 Coast Road West Mersea. Blackboard for a list of Boat Crews, and on another wall, a board for a list of Billets. They were ... Date: 1996 Image ID IA04_183 |
95. A piece of shrapnel from the land mine which came down in the road in East Mersea.
20 November 1940 Parachute mine dropped on road between West and ... Date: 21 November 1940 Image ID JAS_001 |
96. Sent to Mrs E.M. Hayward, Rainbow Road West Mersea, by Queen Elizabeth to say thankyou for welcoming evacuees to her home in 1939.
Mrs Hayward said "Our ... Image ID JAY_EVC_005 |
97. Cudmore Grove before the days of the Country Park. Centre are the two former gun emplacements. On the side of the cliff, to the left is the Battery Observation ... Date: cJuly 1964 Image ID JBA_008_504 |
98. George Saunders Smith as a chosen right-hand man in RAF Guard of Honour for arrival of Prime Minisiter Winston Churchill at the docks in Reykjavik, Iceland. He ... Date: 16 August 1941 Image ID JDV_GSS_031 |
99. Winston Churchill visiting Iceland during WW2. George Saunders Smith is part of the Guard of Honour. Date: 16 August 1941 Image ID JDV_GSS_033 |
100. George Saunders Smith returning from Iceland. He is on the left, sitting on the rail. Date: 1942 Image ID JDV_GSS_035 |
101. Fred Wass. Oxf. & Bucks. Airborne
He is wearing the shoulder badge of the British Airborne Division, representing the mythological figure of Pegasus. ... Image ID JFW_003_005 |
102. On the Water, by J.M. Ellis. West Mersea fishermen and their families in WW2. Page 1.
A study of the experiences and consequences of the Second World War ... Date: November 1999 Image ID JME_002 |
103. Salcott Fire Service in WW2. Letter to Mr P.J. Ponder, Rose Villa, Virley, reference medical examinations by Dr. J. Reid Moir.
W. Foakes, Zaza ... Image ID JMO_FIR_005 |
104. Wedding of Knud Andersen and Ella Janet Smith at Gumley, Leicestershire.
Knud was a Danish seaman who had jumped ship at the beginning of WW2 and joined ... Date: August 1942 Image ID KDA_001 |
105. WW2 pillbox on in Cudmore Grove, East Mersea. It has an opening in the top with a spigot for mounting a light machine gun. Date: July 1990 Image ID LH20_029 |
106. Cudmore Grove. WW2 remains on beach. Date: c1995 Image ID LNZ_011 |
107. Mersea Island - Air Raid Precautions Map. Original map held by Museum. Very fragile. There are many drawing pin holes in the map, perhaps indicating bombs and ... Date: c1945 Image ID MAP_ARP_001 |
108. Key to Mersea Island - Air Raid Precautions Map. Date: c1945 Image ID MAP_ARP_002 |
109. Section of Mersea Island Air Raid Precautions Map. Date: c1945 Image ID MAP_ARP_005 |
110. Section of Mersea Island Air Raid Precautions Map. See ... Date: c1945 Image ID MAP_ARP_007 |
111. Section of Mersea Island Air Raid Precautions Map. Date: c1945 Image ID MAP_ARP_009 |
112. Map of bombs, incendiaries and crashed planes on Mersea Island during World War 2.
This is a scan of a black and white copy of the original map. It has ... Date: c1945 Image ID MAP_BOMB_001 |
113. Part of the bomb map of Mersea Island showing the string of High Explosive [marked in Blue] bombs dropped from near the Water Tower down Mersea Avenue, with the ... Date: 21 November 1940 Image ID MAP_BOMB_001_003 |
114. 373 Coast Battery R.A. West Mersea. Map is of a portion of Victoria Esplanade with Willoughby Avenue going north left of centre of map. Kialami in upper centre ... Date: October 1941 Image ID MAP_WW2_001 |
115. Inside Story by David Greaves. Date: 1989 Image ID MBK_DRG_001 |
116. A Novel Ice-Cream Parlour.
Mr Dawson is to be congratulated on his second ice-cream parlour, fitted out from a war-time gun site. We hope that this venture ... Date: May 1948 Image ID MCY_002_P03_001 |
117. Mersea Island by Mary French, edited by Alec Grant 1973. Page 13.
During the 1914-18 war trenches were dug and wire behind the cliffs near Waldegraves ... Date: 1973 Image ID MFM_P013 |
118. Mistral. Journal of the Mersea Island Society. January 1990. Page 14.
Fifty years on - Mersea Island in Wartime, by Pat Norris née ... Date: January 1990 Image ID MIS_1990_028 |
119. Mistral. Journal of the Mersea Island Society. January 1990. Page 15.
Recollections of an Evacuee by Pat Norris née Patten contd.
Arriving at ... Date: January 1990 Image ID MIS_1990_029 |
120. Mistral. Journal of the Mersea Island Society. January 1990. Page 16.
A Land Girl - Edna Smy.
Edna joined the Women's Land Army and was sent to ... Date: January 1990 Image ID MIS_1990_030 |