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
Read MoreThe 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?
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