Christopher Herbert Jaggs

Janet McMillan (nee Jaggs) does not know much at all about what her father did in the war. He was in the Home Guard, probably at Mistley. He was maybe involved when the barge got burnt at Mistley Quay and was set out from shore – it is still there in the mud.

On the Special Duties, she said, “I thought I was told, that if anything happened, Father would stay behind with the wireless. I think I was told it was in the Clump field, a little thicket. Someone asked me about it a few years ago and I went to look and could not see any (aerial) scars on any trees.” There is also the “Old Mount” - a bigger, old wood in the same field. which seems to be higher land and a bigger wood.

Chris Jaggs and Bill Strang, a nearby farmer who was in the Mistley Patrol, were great friends and enjoyed a few pranks together. 

There was a "tank trap" nearby, which was a Victorian railway cutting from Mistley heading off to Thorpe and Walton, a branch line that was never completed. Janet remembers her father joking after the war with words like "If the Germans came you'd all be killed and thrown in there"  and "You others would all go in the tank trap, when I went to the woods with my radio."