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Wartime West Sussex 1939-45

Reg Miles

Reg Miles was 15 when war broke out and lived at East Dean. After school Reg worked as a guard for Prisoners of War and was in the Home Guard. His mother did the laundry for American soldiers who were stationed nearby. His brother was a Prisoner of War in Japan. Although life was hard, Reg had a good life during the war.

1. Reg Miles remembers seeing planes setting off for D-Day
2. Reg Miles talks about his mother opening a laundry for the American and Canadian troops
3. Reg Miles talks about the evacuation of Dunkirk and the wounded being brought to Chichester
4. Reg Miles talks about being a prison guard to German POWs
5. Reg Miles recalls the gas masks
6. Reg Miles talks about his brother who was a POW in Japan
7. Reg Miles talks more about the German POW camp at Lavant
8. Reg Miles describes the war work he did at Charlton saw mills
9. Reg Miles talks about how fields were prepared to stop enemy planes landing
10. Reg Miles talks about the evacuees who came to East Dean village
11. Reg Miles remembers the Women's Land Army in the East Dean area
12. Reg Miles describes watching air raids over Portsmouth from East Dean
13. Reg Miles recalls sweet rationing
14. Reg Miles recalls Tangmere air base being bombed
15. Reg Miles talks about bombs on Chichester
16. Reg Miles talks about rationing and never going hungry
17. Reg Miles describes his duties in the East Dean homeguard


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