- Contributed by
- Action Desk, BBC Radio Suffolk
- People in story:
- Sergeant Jack Page
- Location of story:
- Parhham Airfield, Suffolk
- Background to story:
- Civilian Force
- Article ID:
- A4404863
- Contributed on:
- 08 July 2005
At 16 I joined the Home Guard and someone approached me to join the new unit, Anti Tank Warfare.
Our fist Area Commander was O.P. Smythe, training in demolition, N. Osceden was Captain. There were 21 men in the East Anglian 202 Battalion GHQ Auxilliary Unit in the Norwich area.
Lord Ironside, son of Field Marshall Sir Edmund Ironside, commander in chief of Home Forces in 1940, honoured members of 202 Unit at the Parham Airfield reunion on 2nd July 2000.
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