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For the military story see military history of the United Kingdom during World War II for foreign affairs, diplomatic history of World War II. For the government see timeline of the first premiership of Winston Churchill. 1939 · 1940 · 1941 · 1942 · 1943 · 1944 · 1945.
In Wick Lane there was Chokes Dairy, and John Choke and his 2 sisters are still alive, and John used to come round with a pony and trap selling the milk, ladling it out of the churns....
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The timelines below present the major events of each year of World War II, from the German invasion of Poland in 1939 to the evacuation from Dunkirk in 1940, and on through the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941, followed by Montgomery’s famous victory at El Alamein in 1942, and onto the Allied landings at Salerno in Italy in 1943, the ...
An account of Christchurch during WW2 including coastal defence, anti-tank island and civil defence.
Britain in the Early Years of World War Two. As World War Two got under way, people in Britain had to adjust to the fear of bombing, and find the will to resist German invasion. Print this...
Timeline for World War II — Great Britain. 1920s: 1922: December 6: The Anglo-Irish Treaty went into effect making the Republic of Ireland independent from the United Kingdom. 1922: June 8: The Irish Civil War began between treaty and anti-treaty forces.
World War II Part of the anti-tank defence which ran the length of the railway line between the River Stour and the River Avon. During the Second World War Christchurch was again fortified against an expected invasion.
