The 'Blitz on Bournemouth' was the German heavy bombing of Bournemouth in the county of Hampshire (now Dorset) (1940/44).

More than 2,200 bombs fell on Bournemouth and nearby Poole during World War II, and 350 civilians and servicemen were killed.

Robert Louis Stevenson’s house Skerryvore, at the head of Alum Chine, was severely damaged by bombs during a destructive and lethal raid on the night of 15/16 November 1940. Despite a campaign to save it, the building was demolished.

On 27 March 1941, a lone German bomber hit the canteen at the Bourne Valley gasworks killing 33 people. This was the deadliest air raid that Poole suffered.

The largest air raid was that of 23 May 1943, when many Focke Wolf Fw 190 single-engined fighter-bombers dropped 25 bombs on the town. The buildings targeted on that day included the Central Hotel at Richmond Hill, the Shamrock and Rambler coach station at Holdenhurst Road, and Beales department store. The Methodist church on Exeter Road was destroyed and 77 people were killed. The greatest loss was the Metropole Hotel in Lansdowne, where many Allied servicemen were staying: 22 commonwealth airmen (mostly Canadian and Australian), and approximately 110 civilians were killed.

Across Bournemouth town centre 22 buildings were destroyed and 3,354 were damaged.