Aug 132012
 

Today we have published a few pages on Major Malcolm Ernest Hancock MC.

Major Hancock protected Churchill and other VIP’s at Chequers before becoming a senior staff officer at Coleshill.

Our Coleshill research Bill Ashby has prepared a detailed overview of his military career. See it here

May 192012
 

We have just added a patrol report on the Admiralty 4 Bath Auxiliary Unit Patrol by our Devon researcher Nina Hannaford.

The OB was constructed in an exsisting structure of an ice house in Prior Park which was built c1750 and parts of it can still be explored today.

Nina’s report has some great first hand accounts of training and life in the OB.

Read it here

 

Oct 052011
 

Today we have also added info on the Aylsham Auxiliary Unit to our site.

The land where the OB is located is owned by the National Trust and CART has been invited to join in with an excavation plan as advisers and also to record any future activities, which are scheduled to commence sometime next spring.

See it all here

Sep 222011
 

Norfolk’s Kirby Bedon Aux Unit Patrol have been added to our site.The secret operational base was located in a shed used for storing apple boxes and crates, in one of the extensive orchards adjoining The Grange in the 1940s.  It was accessed through a trapdoor in the floor which opened to a drop-down shaft with rungs serving as a ladder. The main chamber adjoined at the bottom of the shaft, with a short passage leading into it.

You can see all the info on the patrol  here

Aug 072011
 

We have added the Walsingham Auxiliary Unit and their Operational Base to our site.

This is located in private land in Norfolk.

The info and images have been supplied by CART’s Norfolk CIO, Evelyn Simak and CART ‘s Suffolk CIO, Adrian Pye. You can see and read more on this patrol and their underground Operational Base here

Aug 052011
 

We have been given rare access to Hannington Hall in Wiltshire.

Hannington was used during WW2 as the HQ for the Special Duties Section.

Coleshill (CIO) County Information Officer, Bill Ashby, was joined by Paula and I and the owner of the house, Mr.Wallace, very kindly gave up 2 hours of his time to give us a  tour.

You can see a range of pictures below. (Full CART members can also view interior images if you email us for access)

Very little is still known about what went on at Hannington Hall so if anyone has any information then please contact us.