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

Currently unknown.

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