Tomorrow night at the Martlesham Heath Community Hall, Suffolk (Behind Tesco) the Martlesham Heath Aviation Society are holding a talk called “The Mobile Squad” Churchill’s Secret Army.
Auxilier Ivan Potter will be talking about his time served in the Belstead Patrol.
The talk starts at 7:30pm. Admission is £1:50 for members and £2.50 for non members. Call H King on 01473 274300 for tickets etc.
See more on Ivan’s Patrol here
Today we have added info on the Ousden Special Duties Section Control Station located at Littly Wood in Suffolk. Stations on the Inner network did not have outstations of their own but rather served the purpose of gathering (and under certain circumstances relaying) information. All these Inner network stations were in contact with one or more Control stations that were supplied with information by their own specific networks comprising a number of out and sub-outstations.
A fairly complicated set up which has been clearly explained by our researchers here
Bachelor’s Hall in Hundon, Suffolk was the first headquarters of the Special Duties Section or SDS. The top secret communication network set up to allow SDS members to report on German troop movement if we had been invaded.
The report is based primarily on information supplied by Capt Ken Ward (Royal Corps of Signals), the leader of the original TRD design team (interview 10 August 1999) and it can be read 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
Nicknamed ‘Songthrush’ the East Bergholt resistance force operated from their underground operational base situated west of East Bergholt.
The full report on these brave men can be read here
We have just added another Auxiliary Unit Patrol to the site.
Raydon patrol was also referred to as Stratford St Mary Patrol and formed part of Ipswich Group (Group No 5 Suffolk.
Sadly the OB has now collapsed but you can read the full 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.
We have just added the Peasenhall Patrol to our website. The report was produced by our CIO’s for Suffolk and Norfolk.
Sadly the OB was destroyed at the end of the war.
You can see the report here
We have just added information on the Ipswich II Auxiliary Unit patrol from Suffolk to the site.
The OB has sadly long gone. Apart from patrol leader Sgt Neville G Palmer in the centre, front row of the picture, they don’t know who is who in the photo and would be grateful to hear from anybody who can put names on the other men. The report, by our CIO’s Evelyn Simak and Adrian Pye.
See the full page here
We have just added information on the Bentley Auxiliary Unit patrol from Suffolk to the site.
The report, by our CIO’s Evelyn Simak and Adrian Pye, includes some detailed personal accounts of training and is a must read.
See the full page here