Wool Auxiliary Unit Patrol

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Thank you for selecting information on the Wool Auxiliary Unit Patrol and Operational Base. This patrol report was provided by CART CIO for Dorset Dr. Will Ward.

It is not known for certain if there was a Wool patrol – however there are a number of men listed in the nominal roll from this area and nearby Bovington, who are not known to have been members of any other patrol.

Group Commander was Captain Fortnum from Bloxworth, with help from Lt Quick from Wareham. Sgt Bridges, Grenadier Guards delivered equipment early on (prob Jan-June 1941)

Formed perhaps as late as 1942/43.

It is not known for certain if there was a Wool patrol – however there are a number of men listed in the nominal roll from this area and nearby Bovington, who are not known to have been members of any other patrol. Access to a 1944 list of patrols suggests that there wasn’t a Wool patrol, so it may be that the Winfrith Patrol was reformed using men from a slightly different area, with Sgt Edgar Cooper as the sole member of that patrol to continue. It would make sense to use men from a slightly different area if this happened.

Raymond Rogers worked for the MoD after the war.

There was an OB in Marley Wood, on the road between Winfrith Newburgh and West Lulworth. This was possibly the OB used by this unit.

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Information from John Pidgeon and NA file WO199/3391.