Then and Now

West Sussex

My home county, running from the South Downs to the Channel coast, with market towns, downland villages and seaside resorts. In the run-up to D-Day in the Second World War, it was full of airfields and camps.

Black-and-white 1941 photo of village children watching soldiers beside a Matilda II tank of 44th Royal Tank Regiment stopped in the street at Findon, West Sussex
1941

Findon, West Sussex, 1941

Children watch activity around a Matilda Mk II tank of 44th Royal Tank Regiment in Findon, Sussex, during exercises against ‘enemy’ parachute troops, 4 March 1941.