Bygone Year: Wartime efforts in Gosport

GOSPORT has always been a town that is defined by its huge military importance and this was very evident during the Second World War, famously paying a massive part in the successful D-Day landings from June 1944. With equipment, training establishments and weapons it sadly became a viable target of multiple bomb attacks from the German forces.

In this weekly edition of Bygone Years, our Globe photographer Peter Maguire has been searching through his popular collections of historic and recent local imagery to showcase this town’s brilliant wartime efforts from 1939 to 1945. This covers local recruitment, preparation work, and medical support for wounded people (credit to original photographers).

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PICTURED BY AISLING STEEL: Multiple graves at Haslar Royal Navy Cemetery showing fatalities in WW1 and WW2.