VE Day East Meon

The villagers celebrated Victory in Europe with an outdoor tea party. Included in this photograph are, starting at the top left of the photograph: Two Gilbert girls, Mrs Vaughan, Barry Cole, Terry Gelder, Joyce Tosdevine, Mrs Kille, Betty Smith, Ida Phillips, Mrs Hastie, Mrs Macdonald, Mrs Coorney & child, Florence Jones, Grace Tancock, Ivy Tancock, Reg Lanham, Tony Crockford, Josie Simpson, Bob Dean, Mrs Files, Arthur Carne (evacuee), David Smith, Raymond West, Peter West, Betty Goddard, Irene Goddard, Kathleen Matthews, Whitear girls, Joan Phillips, Mary Brown, Jean Turner, Bobby Turner, Nancy Turner, Peggy West. Further photographs of VE Day celebrations have been provided by Denys Ryder, and include a photograph taken in Frogmore.