Andy Gwynne, Our East Yorkshire CIO has just added some basic patrol reports for North Yorkshire.
Patrols at Brotton, Castleton, Eberston, Eston, Great Ayton, Grangetown, Lockton, Marton, Ormesby, Redcar, Stokesley, Aislaby, Bishopton, Billingham, Elwick and Middleton.
See them here
Today we have added four new Auxiliary Unit Patrols in Kent thanks to contributions from Phil Evans, CART CIO for Kent and Kent Adrian Westwood.
The reports are fairly lean at this stage but we hope that by offering some info, members of the public will help supply further assistance.
They are;
Gibbet Oak (Tenterden), East Sutton, Goudhurst, Cranbrook (codename Pepper) Patrol.
You can see them all here.
Today we have added five new Auxiliary Unit Patrols in Hampshire thanks to contributions from Dr Will Ward, CART CIO for Dorset.
The reports are fairly lean at this stage but we hope that by offering some info, members of the public will help supply further assistance.
They are;
Fordingbridge Patrol
Burley Patrol
Somerley Patrol
Brockenhurst Patrol
Lyndhurst Patrol
You can see them all here. Other reports are due to be published soon.
As we were preparing a re-vamped version of our Weapons & Explosives DVD we came across a short piece of video which we have never shared with anyone.
It features the late Keith Blaxhall guiding Coleshill trained Auxilier Bob Millard around the Coleshill training Operational Base.
Keith was the Head Warden at Coleshill for many years and he loved sharing all his knowledge. Bob explains how things were done in his OB.
Enjoy
Thanks to Pen & Sword Military Books we have five copies of Arthur Ward’s ‘Churchill’s Secret Defence Army – Resisting the Nazi Invader’ book to give away.
This is an update of Arthur’s 1997 book ‘Resisting the Nazi Invader’.
This version has lots of new photography, a new introduction featuring interviews with CART Founder Tom Sykes, Aux writer John Warwicker, and a significantly amended chapter that includes transcripts from interviews with Auxilier Bob Millard.
For your chance to win click here
Winners will be drawn on Friday 1st March 2013.
The Radio 4 drama “Going to Ground” by Simon Passmore which was first broadcast on July 10th 2010, can now be enjoyed again until Friday 18th January at 10pm.
Well worth listening to.
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. (Source: BBC Website)
Peter White, son of the Sgt Fred White of the Langton Matravers Auxiliary Unit is planning to unveil a memorial plaque to the patrol on October 27th 2012.
The British Legion will be in attendance and CART will be providing a small stand in the village hall (seen left). CART’s researchers for Dorset, Coleshill and Devon will also be in attendance.
The small event is open to all and anyone wishing to take part should contact Tom Sykes by emailing hq@coleshillhouse.com
More information on the event can be seen here
We have added two more Auxiliary Unit Patrols in Norfolk to our site.
Carleton St. Peter where little information is known about the patrol other than their names and Narford Patrol.
If you can provide anymore info on these patrols please contact us.
Today we have added a page including pictures and video on the Beverley South Auxiliary Unit Patrol from East Ridings in Yorkshire.
Andy Gwynne has made a cracking video inside the Operational Base and the full report can be seen here
The Brancaster Auxiliary Unit Patrol was one of only two patrols in Norfolk Group 6 the other being Holkham Park Patrol.
Sadly none of the patrol members are still alive and there are no relatives still living in the area but our researchers still managed to compile this report.