We have added information to the site on the Middleton Auxiliary Unit from Norfolk.
Their Operational Base was built by the patrol members themselves. All building materials were ‘borrowed’ from local sources. The roof was constructed from railway sleepers and corrugated sheeting covered with roofing felt. Roadside kerbstones were used for building the walls.
See the full report here
An unknown Operational Base marks the end of CART’s published research for Suffolk Auxiliary Unit Patrols.
CART researchers believe they have uncovered all the known patrols in the county and now hope the public can help fill in any last pieces.
You can read the report on this OB here
Our Norfolk CIO, Evelyn Simak and Suffolk CIO Adrian Pye have supplied the following report on Lincolnshire’s Tilney St.Lawrence (Patrol 7A) Auxiliary Unit Patrol.
They have also added detailed information of an Operational Base which is located within this patrols operational area and they believe it belonged to them.
See the full report here
Grasby Patrol or Patrol 2B as they were known have been added to our website along with info of their Operational bunker.
See the full report here
Thanks to Roger Green and Andy Gwynne for their hard work on this.
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
Another brave group of men from Cornwall have been added to the CART site thanks to the submission of a patrol report from CART CIO Nina Hannaford.
The patrol were known locally as ‘The Bombers’
See the full report and images of the OB location here
Norwich Zero Station – Many 0f our researchers believe this to be the most significant ‘find’ in terms of research into the Special Duties Section in the last decade.
In the spring of 2012, we were contacted by a retired grounds man who informed us about the existence of a secret WWII ‘bunker’ and a meeting was arranged within the same week.
Armed with spades, shovels, a crow bar, and a metal detector we met the owners’ development manager at the site. What we found left us quite breathless (in more than one way)
The property owners acted swiftly and with great responsibility in that the in-house surveyors as well as Norfolk County archaeologists were informed 
within hours. Furthermore, thanks to the owners’ generosity and trust we were the first to carry out a detailed survey before anyone else came on site, and for this we are immensely grateful. Bound by our promise not to talk about what we had seen, we quietly continued our research and we produced a report to be used for guidance by all concerned – knowing that nobody would be familiar with what they would be seeing, and that for this reason not only would many small details go unnoticed but, more importantly, the importance of this find might not be fully understood. Nowhere in the UK was there another Zero-station in a similar state of preservation and with so many original features still in place. Consequently, we suggested that the structure is of national importance and that it should for this reason be preserved in its entirety.
In due course, the Norfolk County archaeologists requested our presence when conducting their own assessment – needless to say that we were very pleased to be invited to meet them. To our great delight, they unanimously decided on the spot to involve National Heritage, resulting in the Zero station being declared a Scheduled Monument of national importance. Our report now forms part of the archaeological survey of the site.
Our thanks go to the landowner and the hard work Evelyn and Adrian have put in to producing this report.
See the full exclusive report here
We have added the Wickham Market/Little Glemham Auxiliary Unit Patrol to the site.
The team used the codename of ‘Thrush’.
The full report by our Norfolk and Suffolk CIO’s can be seen here.
Today we have added a report by Stephen Lewins our CIO for Northumberland.
The Stobswood patrol also known as “The Death or Glory Boys” were based near Widdrington Station and Stobswood, two mining villages in the south east of Northumberland.
You can read his report here
We speak to Jill Monk about her time in the Special Duties Section (SDS)
Full interview can be seen here
Thanks to Evelyn and Adrian.