Zoos in WW2 Related Posts

Our Posts about Zoos in the UK in WW2

https://worldwarzoogardener1939.wordpress.com/tag/wartime-zoo/

London Zoo and the Blitz in WW2

https://worldwarzoogardener1939.wordpress.com/2020/09/08/remembering-the-london-blitz-80-years-on-from-september-and-october-1940/

https://worldwarzoogardener1939.wordpress.com/2020/05/06/wartime-zoo-london-zoo-june-1941/

https://worldwarzoogardener1939.wordpress.com/2015/09/28/london-zoo-in-the-blitz-26-27-september-1940-from-magazines-and-press-articles/

http://www.zsl.org/blogs/artefact-of-the-month/zsl-london-zoo-during-world-war-two

ZSL London Zoo and Whipsnade Staff War Memorial WW2 

https://worldwarzoogardener1939.wordpress.com/2010/11/09/%e2%80%9clost-in-the-garden-of-the-sons-of-time%e2%80%9d-remembering-the-fallen-zoo-staff-from-wartime-zoos-onremembrance-sunday-and-armistice-day-2010-in-the-wartime-zoo-gardens/

https://worldwarzoogardener1939.wordpress.com/2010/11/21/london-zoos-war-memorial-recent-pictures/

Leonard Peachey RAF died 1940 remembered ZSL War Memorial  https://worldwarzoogardener1939.wordpress.com/2015/12/18/remembering-leonard-peachey-london-zoo-staff-killed-in-raf-training-18-december-1940/

Percy Murray Adams ZSL Whipsnade Died 1943 Far East POW, ZSL War Memorial

https://worldwarzoogardener1939.wordpress.com/2018/07/27/remembering-percy-murray-adams-whipsnade-zsl-keeper-died-ww2-pow-27-july-1943/

https://worldwarzoogardener1939.wordpress.com/2015/01/23/remembering-zookeeper-and-gardener-far-east-pows-70-years-on-2015/

Chessington Zoo in WW2 and the Blitz 

https://worldwarzoogardener1939.wordpress.com/2015/10/02/chessington-zoo-blitzed-2-october-1940-eyewitness-accounts/

Chester Zoo and George Mottershead and family in WW2

https://worldwarzoogardener1939.wordpress.com/tag/chester-zoo/

https://worldwarzoogardener1939.wordpress.com/2017/10/22/remembering-albert-mottershead-died-ww1-22-october-1917/

https://worldwarzoogardener1939.wordpress.com/2014/09/05/our-zoo-chester-zoo-and-the-drama-of-zoo-history/

https://worldwarzoogardener1939.wordpress.com/2014/10/09/george-mottersheads-trip-from-our-zoo-at-chester-zoo-to-newquay-zoo/

Peter Falwasser, Chester Zoo Aquarist died WW2 https://worldwarzoogardener1939.wordpress.com/2013/02/07/last-wartime-letters-of-peter-falwasser-chester-zoo-aquarist-1916-1942/

Bristol Zoo in WW2

Despite the old Bristol Zoo site being closed, Bristol Zoo / Wild Place has an active archive collection used in the 175 anniversary celebrations  

https://worldwarzoogardener1939.wordpress.com/2014/07/31/digging-into-bristol-zoos-wartime-garden-past-mystery-photograph-solved/

Belfast Zoo and the Belfast Blitz WW2

https://worldwarzoogardener1939.wordpress.com/2016/04/16/belfast-zoo-and-the-belfast-blitz-19-april-1941/

Paignton Zoo in WW2

https://worldwarzoogardener1939.wordpress.com/2021/06/06/remembering-d-day-6th-june-1944-the-wild-planet-trust-connection