The Home Front in World War Two around Devizes Wiltshire
Devizes was a garrison town, close to the army training bases on Salisbury Plain and relatively safe form German bombing raids. Many thousands of British and American and other allied soldiers were in barracks and billeted in private homes during the war.
There was a large Devizes POW camp on the Horton Road which had at its height held 7 ,500 German and Italian men.
The POW memories page has many intersting stories about the prisoners in our midst who laboured on our farms. Prisoners were from the Devizes and Patney POW camps.
This web page explores the role and contribution of thousands of men and women who served Britain during the 2nd World War outside the formal armed services in Devizes. The organisations covered are;
the Home Guard
Womens' Land Army
Fire Service
Above right: Fred Brewer of Rowde was a full time member of the Royal Observer Corps from 1939 to 1945. In this photo he is atop his post on the Anstie building in the Market Square, Devizes.
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