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WWII Horsham(1939-1945)
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Introduction
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Who took part?
The Allies The Axis Powers
Germany
Italy
Japan
Britain
France
Canada
New Zealand
Australia
India
The Soviet Union (Russia)
China
The USA
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The road to War (1)
Adolf Hitler
The Swastika. This was the symbol of the Nazi party
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The road to War (2)
Chamberlain photographed arriving home after the meeting in Munich.
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War breaks out
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The ‘phoney war’Evacuees arriving in Horsham
© West Sussex County Council Library Service and Record Office
Poster about evacuees
Poster No.: 1998.2216.1 © Horsham District Council’s Horsham Museum and Art Gallery
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Fear of Invasion
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Tank traps on the streets of Horsham.
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Battle of Britain and Air Raids
Photographs in the West Sussex County Times of Orchard Road Horsham after a bomb landed there.
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Warnham Home Guard 1940’s.
Total War: Men
Poster showing a soldier’s equipment
© Horsham District Council’s Horsham Museum and Art Gallery
Poster No.: 1998.1446 © Horsham District Council’s Horsham Museum and Art Gallery
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The Royal Observer Corps outside the Drill Hall, Horsham, 1944.
Total War: Women
Poster showing Women doing war work
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Poster No.: 1998.1447 © Horsham District Council’s Horsham Museum and Art Gallery
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Total War: ChildrenPhotograph from the West Sussex County Times showing
children digging a trench for an air raid shelter.
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Rationing and salvage
Posters asking people to collect material that can be recycled for the war effort.
Poster No.: 1982.27 © Horsham District Council’s Horsham Museum and Art Gallery
Poster No.: 1998.1065 © Horsham District Council’s Horsham Museum and Art Gallery
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Posters and PropagandaPropaganda posters encouraging people to give money to the war effort.
Poster No.: 1999.502 © Horsham District Council’s Horsham Museum and Art Gallery
Poster No.: 1998.1448 © Horsham District Council’s Horsham Museum and Art Gallery
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D-day
British Troops under fire on the beach at Normandy.
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The HolocaustDachau Concentration camp.
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Peace
VE Day Celebrations in London, 8 May 1945
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Aftermath
The War Memorial today. It remembers those who died in both World Wars.
© Gail Mackintosh
