In this section we feature stories & places on Canvey Island associated with the War. Canvey had at least two anti aircraft batteries, a large gun placement, army camps and many Pillboxes.
Canvey Island Homeguard
Uncle Arthur Valentine
Canvey Heroes in Dunkirk Epic
The story of the little ship called 'Shamrock'
A Few Wartime Incidences
From the records at the Bay Museum
VE Victory Party
In memory 70 Years on
An Islander's War
War time memories of Canvey Island
158 Coastal Battery
Canvey Fort c1937-1939
The Canvey B-17
a ww2 crash site
WW11 Memory.
Summertime, Canvey Island.
B17 1944
Crashed off Canvey
Canvey at war
I was 21 years old
I was born in 1941
Memories of wartime Canvey
WWII Memories
Gerald Hudson
Canvey readies itself for war
Claxtons cine film Sept 1939
Col. Fielder and his 'Army'
Heavy Battery, Royal Artillery
HMS St Tudno
Based at Hole Haven during WW2
Wartime Canvey
written for us by Joyce Humphrey
A Child's Sounds of War
Written and Illustrated by Terry Buchanan
Wartime Memories Of Canvey
from Charlie Ford in New Zealand
Richard Buckmaster Remembered
War Time memories by John Buckmaster
Thorney Bay Army Camp
Scars Elbow & Dead Mans Point