We have added some information on the New Forest Scout Section thanks to Dr Will Ward our Dorset CIO.
John Marchant was the commander of the Scout Section for the New Forest in West Hampshire from approximately March 1942 to October 1943.
He had been commissioned at 20 years of age into the Wiltshire Regiment in April 1940 and spent the early part of the war training recruits at the depot in Devizes, Wiltshire. Rather bored, he jumped at the offer from his CO to be posted to alternate duties and found himself at Burley, with a unit of 15 men from the Wiltshire regiment, including a Sergeant and Corporal with the rest as Privates. They weren’t local men, but ordinary soldiers recruited from the depot. This was the New Forest Scout Section.
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