WWI Hampshire

Royal Hampshire Regiment WWI War Diaries

The WWI war diaries for the Royal Hampshire Regiment are available for research through the Royal Hampshire Museum at Winchester

The Pompey Pals

In WWI Portsmouth was able to raise two battalions of ‘Pompey Pals’ the 14th and 15th Hampshire Regiment. Many enlisted at Fratton Park, home of Portsmouth Football Club. How must it have felt to these men of Portsmouth, many of whom would be fervent Pompey supporters, to enter the gates of Fratton Park, not to join the fray of a football game but to enter the affray of war?

WWI Memorial Exbury

The WWI memorial at Exbury Hampshire is a poignant memorial to the Forster brothers who gave their lives in WWI.

WWI Guy Victor Baring Northington

Guy Victor Baring is remembered in Northington Church by amongst other things a simple wooden cross. Just another poignant reminder of the lives given by Hampshire men in WWI.

WW1 Memorial the Tillard Brothers

WWI memorials can be fond in many Hampshire churches. Hampshire History is taking the opportunity to remember some of those who gave their lives. The Tillard brothers died within a few weeks of each other in France in WWI.

Reginald Ponsonby Cox WWI Itchen Stoke

The church at Itchen Stoke holds a very beautiful memorial plaque to Reginald Ponsonby Cox who lost his life in WWI

Bonham Carter WWI Memorial

In remembrance of those who gave their lives in WWI, Hampshire History will be posting images of WWI memorials and associated artefacts and events,discovered as we travel through Hampshire.

Beautiful Brockenhurst Church

The oldest church in the New Forest, Brockenhurst church, the church of St Nicholas, has a beautifully mellow look, as though it has occupied this position for ever. And it nearly has. Like several other Hampshire churches, St Nicholas is positioned on a mound, a sign that this position has been held sacred maybe since…