Last weekend our Somerset Researcher Chris Perry attended The Dig for Victory Show.
Chris reported a good turn out of vehicles and displays with a fair bit of interest in the stand.
Chris got talking to a lady who knew of a Operational Base site in Dorset and her information was very helpful. He also attracted new leads for our Devon Researcher.
After months of detailed research by Chris Perry and Nina Hannaford we are pleased to be able to publish a report on the Taunton Auxiliary Unit.
This is the most accurate and detailed account of the patrol ever published. Our thanks go to many people who helped with this report including Neil Bent son and nephew of Group Commanders Lt. Bent.
We have added two detailed reports to our website by our Somerset researcher Chris Perry, with assistance from our Devon researcher Nina Hannaford.
The Butleigh Patrol was already on the website but has been greatly enhanced and expanded on. The Baltonsborough Patrol is new and the depth of research by Chris is just first rate.
See the reports under Somerset Group 11 here.
Today we have added a very detailed report on the Tawstock Auxiliary Unit Patrol in Devon.
The report has been compiled by Nina Hannaford, our Devon CIO with help by our Somerset Researcher, Chris Perry.
The report provides great insight into the men behind the patrol, their training and targets, not to mention a very unusual Operational Base.
Today we have added a excellent report by Chris Perry and Nina Hannaford about Special Duties OUT Station located near Puckington in Somerset with the codename ‘Chirnside 4’.
The station would have communicated directly with “Chirnside Zero” at Castle Neroche near Buckland St Mary.
After some much needed help supplied by Aux researcher Chris Perry, we have now added the Butleigh Auxiliary Unit Patrol report on the site.
It is only a basic report at this stage but still gives the names of the men involved. Chris is working on a few more reports as we write this.
We have added a very detailed report on the Ashbrittle Auxiliary Unit by Aux researcher Chris Perry and our Devon CIO Nina Hannaford.
The patrol were based at the village of Ashbrittle, 6 miles west of Wellington in south west Somerset.
What makes Ashbrittle’s Operational Base special is the level of work that went into the chimney and the remaining concrete air vent base moulded from concrete to resemble a tree.
See many images and more info on this patrol here.
Aux researcher Chris Perry with assistance from Nina Hannaford has today published a report on a Special Duties Out Station.
The report is about the wireless site, recorded as “Hawkchurch” Out Station, on the Devon / Dorset border (in Devon from 1896) which is actually in the nearby hamlet of Fishponds Bottom which is in Dorset on the edge of the Vale of Marshwood.
The wireless was located in a “chicken shed” at the rear of a house locally known as “Briscoe’s Farm”.
Read their detailed report here