Military Mtarfa

1962

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🚴 For our next event in Gudja, we are taking history on the move again!

🦵 You are invited to join either one of our two free bicycle tours around local WW2 sites on Sunday the 12th of November!

📚 You will learn all about local infantry regiments and structures built during the war still lying intact around the countryside. A soldier on an original bicycle will be more than happy to guide you!

🚲 It is important that you bring your own bicycle. More information about this unique opportunity on our event page Difiza: il-Gudja fil-Gwerra (Codename ASIA)

A poem about childhood was written by Sylvia and published in the Times of Malta on the 15th of March 1942.

Entitled “Child of Malta”, this poem is a true expression of a child’s point of view: too young to understand what was happening but old enough to understand how to be safe and what to do.

Child of Malta - Sylvia

We’re sleeping in a shelter
At the bottom of a well,
It’s a little rocky shelter
And it’s really awf’ly swell;
And we like our little shelter
For it’s very far below
The noise of bombs and gunfire
And such like things you know.

And when the bombers’ droning
It passing overhead,
And the ack-ack shells are moaning,
I’m in my little bed;
And over by the stairway
My little puppy, Nell,
In a little rocky shelter
At the bottom of a well.

It may be drear and smelling,
It may be hot and damp,
But when the guns are shelling,
We have our little lamp,
And I wish our noble gunners
Were half as safe as Nell
And me down in our Shelter
At the bottom of a well.

Visit MALTA AT WAR MUSEUM and support Fondazzjoni Wirt Artna – The Malta Heritage Trust.

🕙 Monday-Saturday (10:00-16:30)

The heroic women of World War II Malta. June, 1942. Maria Cassar awakens to the darkness which shrouds the dormitory at the Sir David Bruce Hospital. She looks at the clock…

9 ta’ Jannar 1917. Tren nieżel mill-Imtrafa, miexi 15-il mil fis-siegħa, ħabat f’karozza li kienet qed taqsam fi Triq il-Mosta, Attard. F’dan l-inċident weġgħu in-nisa ta’ uffiċjali għolja Ingliżi fil-karozza. Uffiċjali tal-ferrovija qalu li il-karozza kienet għaddejja b’veloċità kbira u li x-xufier ma tax każ ufficjal tal-ferrovija li qallu biex jieqaf. Dawn bagħtu l-istruzzjonijiet li jsegwu fl-Uffiċju tal-Gvernatur. Ritratt: L-Arkivji Nazzjonali ta’ Malta.

9 January 1917. An accident between a train, moving at 15 miles an hour, and a car in a crossing at Mosta Road Attard. The wives of two Bristish officers in the car were injured. Railway personnel claimed that the car was driven “at a furious rate” and that the driver did not heed to the Gatekeeper’s shouts to stop. A copy of the Gatekeeper’s instructions was sent to the Governor’s office. Photo: The National Archives of Malta.