yeovil at war

yeovil at war 

 

19th Century and before

 

 

Crimean War, 1853-56

 

 

Boer War, 1899-1902

 

 

 

First World War, 1914-1918

 



From my collection

 It wasn't all fighting in the trenches during the Great War, sometimes there was an ordinary life.



From my collection

 Women played their part in the Great War - these were factory workers for the war effort.

  • The Fallen
    The Yeovil men who gave their lives in the Great War,
    each with their own story

 

 
 


From my collection

Second World War, 1939-1945

 

 

 

Memories of Yeovil during the Second World War

 

 

 

Falklands War

 

 

 

Post-Wars

 

 

Yeovilians remember...

"I was taking our dog for a walk one evening along West Hendford by Loder’s Car Sales (it was just a stone track and garden allotments then) when the bombs started falling, I ran for home on the corner of Beer Street, men were lying on the pavement against the wall and shouting "Get down you silly bugger!" - but I kept running, I was going home to Mum."

Tony Robins

 


From my collection

A photograph of marching soldiers by Yeovil photographer William Ross, produced as a postcard around 1915.