| Life
in Bures during WW1 and WW11
For the past decade I have been documenting
life in Bures during the Second World War. Although a rural village
the war had a profound impact on daily life, from our brave men
who left to fight the enemy to the arrival of the Americans. The
Americans first task was to build the infrastructure such as airfields
and roadways for their large vehicles. West Suffolk was a rural
area and Bures only a remote village. Suffolk County Councils response
to local Air Raid Precautions were summarised as:-
The Government takes the view that there are no worthwhile targets
in West Suffolk and least of all in rural areas. Any damage from
air action will therefore be sporadic and accidental.
The Home Office has recommended that warnings should only be sounded
in Boroughs and Urban Districts.
Considering Bures Hamlet was the site of the largest USAAF Bomb
Dump in East Anglia and we suffered the loss of five lives in Nayland
Road due to enemy action, this is an understatement to say the least.
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Bures Home Guard,
Local Defence
Bures was well equipped to fight the enemy as we had our own
Home Guard together with a unit of the Secret Army. These were
hand picked men who were highly trained to fight the enemy covertly
and try and reap havoc with their lines of communication and
transport.
The ladies also played a vital part keeping their village supplied
with food and plenty of moral boosting events.
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BOMBS Forward Ammunition Dump (FAD)
Bures Hamlet, Pebmarsh, and the Colnes was the site of a large
Ammunition Dump which stored bombs along the roadside ready
for transportation to the local airfields. None of this information
has ever been documented before. After 10 years of research
it`s taken me as far afield as the Military archives in the
USA.
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Womens Land Army (WLA)
Many Land Army girls worked on the local
farms in and around Bures.
They were transported daily
by lorry from their Hostel over at Leavenhath.
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Unfortunately
90% of this work is now off-line
Unscrupulous visitors copy (plagiaries)the text and photographs,
which they publish on their own sites with no respect to myself
who has spent years researching this information.
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WW11,
PILL BOXES
FORWARD
AMMUNITION DUMP
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