Pte Herbert Dyer
Herbert was born on the 23rd August 1912 in North Devon. His parents were James and Mary Dyer, following their marriage they went on to have a large family, living…
Richard James Trebble (1926-1945)
Richard James Trebble was born in 1926 to Arthur and Minnie of Woolacombe. The family lived at WaveCrest. Richard along with his friends, Ray Easterbrook, Alf Yeo, Jeff Skinner and…
Olin Dows A United States Army artist who served during World War II in Woolacombe
“Images are my language” Olin Dows 1963 Olin Dows was born in 1904 in New York, educated at Harvard’s Department of Fine Arts and later at Yale’s Students League. By…
Sub-Lieut Derek Worth
The Worth family lived in Woolacombe, Frederick, Derek’s father, worked at the Woolacombe Bay Hotel during the second world war, as their own house had been taken over by the…
Dodge, Dunkeswell and Disaster
On May 8th 1945 Nazi Germany surrendered and the Second World War in Europe came to an end. With the fighting over, there was no longer a requirement for hundreds…
Woolacombe Girl Home from America (1947)
North Devon Journal Thursday 14th August 1947 6000 Miles for visit Woolacombe Girl home from America “I am glad to have the opportunity of speaking for those English girls who…
Mortehoe Soldier in the Dardanelles Operations
Mr. A. H. Slee, Headmaster of Morte-Hoe School, has received an interesting letter from an “old boy” of the School – Sapper W. J. Cowler, Royal Engineers, who is…
Homecoming of Woolacombe Soldier – Driver Richard Tossell (1943)
Grand to be Back Homecoming of Woolacombe Repatriated Soldier Ambulance Driver Richard G. Tossell, of Glen Villa, Woolacombe was one of the service men repatriated from Italy who reached England…
Corpl Walter Brown of Resthaven, Woolacombe PoW (1943)
North Devon Journal – Thursday 21st January 1943 Corpl. Walter Brown, of Resthaven, Woolacombe formerly of Georgeham who is a prisoner of war in Germany. Corpl, Brown was captured during…
Gunner A. F. Bidgood writes from Italy (1944)
Thursday 31st August 1944 – North Devon Journal Gunner A. F. Bidgood of Woolacombe, who is serving with the 8th Army in Italy has written in high praise of the…
Woolacombe & World War 2
“I recall we could count nine rows of breaking surf, and would be lulled to sleep by the sound of that magnificent surf, the clouds would sweep up over Lundy…
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