WW2

The following brief summary of major incidents that took place in Eastleigh during the Second World War is drawn from the official accounts, a report in the Southern Daily Echo and records kept by a number of people living in Eastleigh at the time.
Mrs. D. Knight recorded the duration of every siren warning that was given and from the first on 7th June, 1940, to the last on 7th November, 1944> she has noted 1,590 alerts, not much different from the official figure of 1,469.