Wartime

Memorials

• Good Shepherd (Collier Row)
• Romford

French Revolutionary War (1793-1802) and Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815)

• Romford Barracks (1795-1825)

Crimean War (1854-56)

• Veteran, William Ray, c. 1900

Boer War (1899-1902)

• Memorial

First World War (1914-1918)

• Group of soldiers
• Balgores House, c. 1917
• Gidea Hall, in use as an Officers School for the Artists' Rifles, c. 1918
• Soldiers in Albert Road
• Remembrance day, c. 1921
• Old Contemptibles Association

Second World War (1939-1945)

• Memories
   
• Identity Card
• Anderson air raid shelter, 3 Ayr Way, c. summer 1940
• Bomb-damaged telephone exchange, 1940
• 'Land Girls'
• Leslie Spencer Cowen, c. 1941
• Sergeant Flight Engineer Richard Venville Thomas Bowerman, killed in action, 1944 (enquiry about his next-of-kin)
• Flying Officer Wilfred James Cowen, c. 1944
• Birch Road VE Day street party, 1945
• Crichton Gardens VE Day street party, 1945
• Civil Defence, Report and Control, 1945
• Message to all Civil Defence workers

Books

• Hitler v Havering: 1939-45
• Hornchurch Scramble

Links

• Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• Royal British Legion
• Hornchurch Wing