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Upwey Auxiliary Unit Patrol

Thank you for selecting information on the Upwey Auxiliary Unit and Operational Base in Dorset. The info below has come from our CIO for Dorset, Dr Will Ward.

This page was last updated at 9:06am on 17/6/15

Research into this patrol and its training is ongoing. The information below is published from various sources and is by no means conclusive. If information is not listed below it does not necessarily mean the information is not out there but normally means our researchers have not found it yet.

If you have any information on this patrol or can help with research in this area please do contact us.

Group Commander was Captain Sparkes from Langton Herring, with help from Lt Walker from Chickerell.

Currently unknown.

Name	Date of Birth	Occupation		Died
Sgt. Jesse Theodore Crocker	20/6/1900			1978
Pte. Herbert Joseph Strange	20/9/1901
Pte. Stanley George Bown	7/10/1905			1978
Pte. Robert Guppy	8/12/1902
Pte. William George Wallace	15/4/1902		Left for HM Forces, April 1943	1976

Jesse Crocker had served with the Dorset Regiment in France in WW1.

The OB is understood to have been on the South side of the Ridgeway. There were possibly two OBs, with one abandoned and a new one built. Neither have been located.

Not known.

Nothing currently.

It is assumed the patrol used the standard weapons and explosives.

Nothing currently.

National Archives WO 199/3390, 199/3391
Additional names and dates of death from Ancestry.co.uk

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