Hockwold Auxiliary Unit Patrol and Operational Base

This page was last updated at 10:24am on 22/12/11

Thank you for selecting information on the Hockwold Auxiliary Unit Patrol and their Operational Base in Norfolk. The info and images below have been supplied by CART's Norfolk CIO, Evelyn Simak and CART's Suffolk CIO Adrian Pye.

The patrol formed part of Norfolk Group 10 which also included Brandon, Fakenham, East Dereham and Lakenheath/Thetford Patrols.

CO: Capt Walter G Gentle (Brandon) - Local butcher

Captain Gentle M.C. was awarded the M.B.E. in the 1945 New Year's Honours List for "Services rendered to the 202 Battalion Home Guard".

2nd  Lt. Eric G Field  
2nd Lt R.F.St.B Wayne 
2nd Lt DC Kerry/Carey         
? 2nd Sgt GR Holmes   

It is currently unknown when the patrol was formed.

Sgt Walter T Cooper
Cpl A Maggs
Ronald Bartlett (Feltwell)
Jessie Alfred Morley Enefer
Ernest AA Hicks (Hockwold)
Ray C Rolph
AE Starking

According to patrol member Ray C Rolph, the OB was located in woodland at the rear of Feltwell Lodge, in an area locally known as Feltwell Top.  Part of this area was transformed into a quarry that is currently used as a landfill site.  

The OB was described to us as having been an underground Nissen hut with an Ammo store and an escape run of 100 yards into woods. Nothing remains today.

Both RAF Feltwell and RAF Methwold were situated in close vicinity.

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JAM Enefer (son of patrol member LSG Enefer), Weeting; Ray C Rolph (patrol member), personal interviews; Stephen Lewins CART CIO Northumberland

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