Jul 262010
 

CART is looking for a researcher to help them deal with the massive amount of enquiries they receive.

You will need to have some knowledge of the Auxiliary Units, own a computer with access to the internet and be prepared to give up at least 1 – 2 hours a week.

CART will provide you with everything else.

As CART is a non profit group this is an unpaid roll.

If you would like to offer your services please email us.

Jul 222010
 

It’s not too late to join CART.

The most cost effective way is to become and Associate Member.

This membership level is designed for people who have an interest in the Aux Units but do not want to participate in events and the running of CART etc.

You get the following;

•    12 emailed newsletters.
•    Opportunities to attend CART organised events and day trips.

At only £8 a year or approx 66 pence a month we think it is worth it.

Other membership levels can be seen here

Jul 222010
 

Tomorrow morning Bob Millard and Tom Sykes will be talking on BBC Radio Gloucestershire at around 9:25am talking about the recent AW bomb finds at Birdlip.

You can listen online buy going to this page and looking under RADIO

Tom will be be featured in a TV news piece on BBC Points West on the evening news at 6:30 pm. This can be watched on our press page.

Jul 102010
 

Thanks to Donald Brown we heard about the Radio 4 drama “Going to Ground” by Simon Passmore which BBC Radio 4 broadcast today.

It can be heard for 7 days from today on this link

1940, Kent. England is on full alert in anticipation of a German invasion. As church bells sound the alarm, a secret resistance unit springs into action. Whatever happens, none of them expects to see their families again.

Shrubb ….. Ivan Kaye
Turle ….. Anthony Flanagan
Pye ….. Rupert Evans
Jarvis ….. Guy Henry
Davie ….. Joshua Jenkin
Ann ….. Alison Pettitt
Lucy Pye ….. Christine Kavanagh
Station Master ….. Sam Dale

Directed by Toby Swift

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This wartime drama features the exploits of an English guerrilla unit trained to make things as difficult as possible for the German invasion force.

The existence of the covert Auxiliary Units during World War II only became widely known in the 1990s. They were patrols of 4 to 8 men with orders to disappear as soon as the bells sounded. Southern England was dotted with dozens of secret underground bunkers which served as their bases. Trained and equipped with the best guerrilla weapons available, their orders were to sabotage and snipe at the invading army; to gather information on troop movements. Completely cut off by design, they operated in total secrecy and isolation. Their life expectancy was calculated officially at 14 days.