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Description: | Joseph Buckerfield's wife Gwen was evacuated to Southampton for a while during the Blitz of 1940.
A landmine had exploded near her home in Mortlake. The family decided she and her young son would be safer in Southampton.
But Southampton was also a target for bombs. It was a major port, and so of strategic importance. And almost as soon as Mrs Buckerfield arrived, the bombing started.
Here Gwen Buckerfield describes what happened. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Power and Politics Home and Family | Temporal: | 1940-1949 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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