Today we added a page on the website all about Chalton Auxiliary Unit.
They were located in Hampshire near Petersfield.
Steve Mason, CART’s CIO for Hampshire, has done a great job collating a whole load of info on this patrol. Much of it has never been made public before.
Steve is slowly building up more info on the various patrols dotted all over Hampshire. He can be contacted at carthampshire@gmail.com if you have any info that might help him.
See more on Hampshire here
We have now improved the search function on this site.
Google Search is now the main search engine. This is a much better search function as it now includes;
You can search at the bottom of any web page or here
Today the world famous record producer, Sir George Martin, opened his grand gardens to the public in Coleshill.
It allowed the public a rare glimpse into the grounds of The Old Rectory and was opened as part of the National Garden Scheme.
Images of the amazing grounds, taken by CART founder Tom Sykes, can be seen below and here.
If Sir George ever reads this blog, thank you so much for access into your most beautiful garden.
We have just updated the page on the Northumberland patrol at Allerdean.
With the help of the land owner who saw our first web page, Stephen Lewins has now located the Operational Base and his new findings can be seen here
They include a plan, video and images.
Our thanks go to Mr. John Holmes, the land owner, for allowing access and helping Stephen.
Steve Mason, CART’s County Information Officer (CIO) for Hampshire, has been busy with his research.
Today CART published a page by Steve on the Havant (West) Patrol which can be seen here.
Steve recently gave a talk about his research in Hampshire to guests at our Secret Army @ Tottington Manor event.
If you can help by adding providing any information on the Hampshire patrols please email Steve at carthampshire@gmail.com
The ongoing project at Coleshill, known as Coleshill Uncovered has now been featured in a Swedish history magazine called ‘Altom Historia’.
You can download and read the article here
Roughly translated it reads as
“In the woods a few miles off London was one of Winston Churchill’s most secret facilities. Here, in Coleshill House trained guerrillas during World War II. Their task was to fight the Germans on the invaded Britain.
The men and women would operate in smaller units in different parts of the country. The name used was an Auxiliary Unit, Reserve unit, but had even named a key role in the defense. It was Churchill himself who gave the order to
the secret army was organized. After the evacuation from Dunkirk 1940 was prime minister convinced that a German invasion was to be expected.
Now the archaeological excavations started on the spot. The aim is to see if you can do findings – or find the whole bases – that is to tie resistance movement.
Surprisingly little is known on the device, perhaps because of its top-secret mission. Many of the volunteers were young people. They were trained, among other things in blowing up railways and fight it against it. Upon arrival at the camp had they know that they were not expected to live longer than fifteen days when the Germans landed in England.”