Jack Page

Jack was the son of Harry and Jessie Page. In 1939, as he turned 16, he is recorded as not previously employed and seeking work. His father is an engineering smith.

Jack joined the Home Guard at 17 in 1940. He was then approached to join a new unit and became a member of Auxiliary Units. He was initially in Eaton Patrol before becoming Assistant Group Commander. He was best friends with Auxilier John Fielding. Jack gave the impression that he and John had not known that each other were in the Auxiliary Units to begin with, even though they knew each other.

Friend Michael Mutter recalled: From what remember, I believe he had worked for a time in the same light engineering business as his father, but am not 100% sure. I only later knew him when he had retired and was doing a lot of Voluntary work with/for NANSA in Norwich.

Jack had once told me that during the war he had lived above the row of shops at Bunnett Square, on Colman Road where it crosses The Avenues, and had once pointed to the first floor, between what is now No 141 or 139a in the middle of the row. 

Jack always spoke really warmly of "Oxo", (Nigel Oxenden) who apparently had always been good to his word in procuring really quickly, whatever they had need of. Jack visited British Resistance Organisation Museum at Parham several times, at the time when John Warwicker was very involved, and he gave a lot of information to the Museum. I have put Eaton Patrol as his Patrol as he had once shown me the remains of the old Lime Kiln houses just in Danby Wood off Marston lane, and told me that his OB had been "under there" with an entrance that had been sealed off. 

He is remembered as a really lovely, kind and upstanding gentleman in every sense of the word.