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