Cottingham North Patrol

County Group

Locality

The large village of Cottingham lies 3.5 miles north-west of Hull.

Patrol members

Name	Occupation	Posted from	Until
Sergeant Jack Hilary Edward Steele	Sanitary inspector	Unknown	03 Dec 1944
Sergeant Leonard Wollas	Grocers manager	Unknown	1943
Corporal Joseph Long	Grocer	Unknown	03 Dec 1944
Corporal Harry Nicholson	Master butcher	Unknown	Unknown
Private Alan Bolton	Farmer	Unknown	03 Dec 1944
Private Hedley Ernest Yates Brocklehurst		Unknown	Unknown
Private Charles Reginald Hoggins	Lithographic printer	Unknown	Unknown
Private John Grant Lindsay	Doctor - G.P	Unknown	03 Dec 1944
Private Ronald Newlove	Fitter	Unknown	03 Dec 1944
Private John Spilman Rhodes	Butcher	Unknown	03 Dec 1944
Private Mark Kitchener Wilson	Market gardener	Unknown	03 Dec 1944

Operational Base (OB)

The OB was situated beneath a green house in the grounds of The Grange at Cottingham. The entrance was through the boiler house and accessed by moving aside a pile of coke.

Mrs Susan Pace, the daughter of Auxilier Leonard Wollas, told how at one time the whole Patrol nearly died from fumes from the boiler house and it was only that Auxilier John Lindsay, a GP who was out on a call, returned to find the whole Patrol on the verge of death that they were saved.

The Grange was demolished to make way for Cottingham High School development.

Patrol & OB pictures

Leonard Wollas (3rd from left), Harry Nicholson (4th left) with commando knife. (Mrs Susan Pace)

Cottingham Grange

OB Status

Destroyed

Location

References

TNA ref WO199/3389

Hancock data held at B.R.A

1939 Register

Andy Gwynne

East Ridings Secret Resistance by Alan Williamson.

Mark Sansom

Cottingham Grange