Devizes and its villages in World War Two 

 

The aim of these pages is to tell the history and the stories of Devizes in the Second World War. The pages are split into the following sections: 

 

Home Front in Devizes

the Home Guard, Womens' Land Army, Royal Observer Corps. Photogallery

  

German POW Camp in Devizes - camp 143. Italians in the Castle. 

 

Local memories of POW in Devizes

 

Allied Units in Devizes - UK, American and Polish units in and around Devizes.                                         

 

The RAF In And Around Devizes

 

May We Never Forget - Local Heroes

 

Right Pupils playing in gun emplacements on the Green, Devizes

 

Below Sergeant Thomas Gray VC RAF - killed in action May 1940. he was from Urchfont

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Above right: "Wings for Victory" parade in the Market Square Devizes May 22nd 1943 

 

History Conference on the Civil War in the west and

the battle of Roundway Down 1643.

Devizes Heritage and the Battlefields Trust are organisng a conference on April 30th, 2011 in Devizes Town Hall. There will be 4 nationally important authors and historians talking. Click Conference for details

 

 

Can you help

If you have any pictures or stories from the war please e-mail Devizes Heritage directly  by clicking here.