by edencamp | May 21, 2021 | Blog
In today’s Forgotten Friday, in honour of the amazing volunteers we have here on site, we are focusing on the volunteers that served during the Second World War! The Women’s Voluntary Service, known as the WVS, was and still is to this day a voluntary organisation...
by edencamp | May 14, 2021 | Blog
Today’s #ForgottenFriday focuses on when we first opened our doors as a Museum as a memory to our founder Mr Stan Johnson. In early 1942, a small contingent of Army personnel, under the command of a Sergeant, arrived at Malton, midway between York and...
by edencamp | May 7, 2021 | Blog
As part of the large war effort on the Home Front and the Front Line, Nurses were a huge part of the Second World War, and today’s Forgotten Friday will focus on the importance and remembrance of the fantastic men and women in this service. Today we are remember Lt....
by edencamp | Apr 30, 2021 | Blog
While the War Office kept fathers fighting on the front line, the Ministry of Supply kept women hard at work in the factories. But Ministry of Health helped the nation’s mothers maintain another form of essential production! In the middle of one of the biggest wars in...
by edencamp | Apr 23, 2021 | Blog
A story of an Italian POW, Mr Guiseppe “Joe” Ciotoli, who was held here at Eden Camp during World War Two and after, 1946. Joe Ciotoli was an infantry man who served with the Italian Army, which surrendered to the Allies at Tunisia in May 1943. He arrived...
by edencamp | Apr 16, 2021 | Blog
As a member of the German Navy, he was captured in 1944 by Canadian troops in the British Aermel Cannel Aera of France and was given over to the British Troops at Dieppe. In the summer of 1945, he stood in the POW Camp 54 Shepstow, south west of England where he...
