Terry Piper, who had been evacuated from Old Portsmouth to the Weston part of the parish in about 1942 when…
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As part of work to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day in 2020, we are trying to find information…
Over a hundred people squeezed into the village hall on Saturday 28th September – including some who had first come…
Portsmouth City Council has unveiled almost 120 individual panels to honour the sacrifice of men with connections to Portsmouth who…
Experts from ‘The D-Day Story’ museum in Southsea visited Buriton in October to record details of Buriton’s own D-Day stories….
The Heritage Bank has received a copy of a fascinating account of life in Buriton during the Second World War…
The search to identify the Regiments of Canadians who camped around the village in the 1944 build-up to D-Day continues….
A routine field survey by local metal detectorists has unearthed a Canadian 1 cent coin in an area where Allied…
Almost 200 visitors flocked to Buriton church on Saturday 27 th September 2014 for the annual ‘Bygone Buriton’ exhibition –…
Our research into Buriton’s connections with the D-Day landings of 1944 culminated in the production of a new book to…
