Oxfordshire – Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum

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Aug

Veterans’ Coffee & Chat We’re starting a new, regular veterans’ coffee morning at the museum. Starting on Thursday 28 September the event will become a bi-monthly fixture, with future dates falling on the final Thursday of every other month. Open to all veterans, they’ll offer an opportunity to meet up and catch up with fellow veterans as well as a chance to browse the museum galleries free of charge. With…

Photgraphic postcard remembering the victims of the Sea Scout Tragedy, including Stanley Wood

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May

The Lowestoft Journal published an article on 29th March 2022 covering the story of a unique photographic collection with historical connections to a tragic drowning of a number of Sea Scouts that had “come home” to a local Air Scout troop that had won bidding when the photos went to auction. The tragic events of June 1, 1914 saw three Sea Scouts, their two Scout Masters and a naval instructor drown when…

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Nov

One of our recent acquisitions is Villa Patricia, which was donated by a local couple in Woodstock. The doll’s house was commissioned by Dr Richard Blaiklock who served with the Hampshire Regiment as Regimental Medical Officer. He was sent overseas to Southern Italy in 1944 to assist local hospitals, and from there was sent into several prisoner of war camps to assess the prisoner’s medical needs. One of the camps…

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Aug

Oral Histories – Air Raids, Anderson Shelters and Evacuation Since SOFO began we haven’t just collected objects and records. Volunteers have helped us record the memories of Oxfordshire people affected by historic conflicts in the form of recorded oral history interviews. You can hear some of these in use in the museum’s galleries when you visit (such as in our Liberation of Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, Airpower and D-Day displays), and…

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Jul

Operation Pig Ark – Uncovering an Anderson Shelter in 2019 In 2019 members of the SOFO Museum Team collected an Anderson shelter roof from a farm in Deddington, Oxfordshire, where it had been repurposed into a pig ark. The metal was attached to large wooden blocks which were anchored to the ground, so our team had to carefully prise the metal away from the wood to free it. The roof was in several parts…

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Jul

How You Can Help Build a Second World War Air-Raid Shelter At SOFO we tell stories of everyone affected by war in the county of Oxfordshire; from the soldier on the front line to ordinary families on the home front. Our small but dedicated team of staff and volunteers work hard to tell these stories of conflict and county in many different ways, including museum displays and learning sessions. Our latest…

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Join us at one of the regular Veterans’ coffee mornings at Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum

The Oxfordshire military connection to a Suffolk tragedy, 1914

Welcome to Villa Patricia – Our Featured Object

Oral Histories – Air Raids, Anderson Shelters and Evacuation

Operation Pig Ark – Uncovering an Anderson Shelter in 2020

Can You Help Us Build A WW2 Air-Raid Shelter?