See the left hand column (or below on mobile devices) for WW2 research articles. Other pages and links for WW2 and the Homefires & Havens exhibition are below:
- Amersham’s Modern Alchemists
- Amersham Playhouse
- Amersham Home Guard
- An Amersham Home Guard unit with a Vickers Gun in a truck.
- Bunny Johnson
- Chalfont St Giles in the 1940s
- The Chesham Bois War Memorial
- Diaries of Mabel Brailsford
- Colin Hunt
- Read about Jack Grayburn VC (3.1MB pdf). (More information about the 2nd Battalion Oxford & Bucks and the 1st Airborne Defence Platoon is available from Stephen Berridge’s excellent website about the “Light Bobs“, the nickname for the Ox & Bucks light infantry regiment.)
- Homefires and Havens
- Hyde Heath in wartime
- Intelligence and Interrogation
- James Bond – The Amersham Connection
- Latimer House
- Post-war temporary camps
- Submarine from Amersham
- WW2 Relics
- WW2 Preparations
- VE Day in Amersham
- VE Day in Winchmore Hill
- Wartime Jewish Amersham
- Winchmore Hill’s VE Day celebrationsVisit the timeline about
- Women at War, celebrating the formation of the WAAC in 1917.
- Wartime Reminiscences