CART Auxiliary Unit Research

A.K.A. (nickname)

Gaywood

County Group

Locality

Mintlyn is an area east of King's Lynn.

Patrol members

Name	Occupation	Posted from	Until
Sergeant Harold Charles Spreckley	Pharmacist / Chemist	Unknown	03 Dec 1944
Corporal Frederick William Walker	Yard foreman - sugar factory	Unknown	03 Dec 1944
Private Ernest William Baker	Plater - boiler maker	Unknown	03 Dec 1944
Private Aubrey Eric Brown	Draughtsman	Unknown	03 Dec 1944
Private William James Ely	Baker & confectioner	Unknown	03 Dec 1944
Private Douglas Grahame Knowles	Retail chemist assistant & dispenser	Unknown	Unknown
Private Richard Pearse Libbey	Scientific advisory officer on mown grassland	Unknown	03 Dec 1944
Private Edwin De Gray Seaman	Farmer	Unknown	03 Dec 1944
Private E. A. Williams		Unknown	Unknown

Operational Base (OB)

The OB is located on the edge of Bawsey Country Park and open to the public.

Only a depression in the ground remains of Mintlyn Patrol’s OB, with a short gully denoting the course of the emergency exit passage. The emergency exit was found by a friend of Mr D Neville about 40 years ago when setting snares: the peg the snare was attached to would not go into the ground and on investigating a steel trapdoor was discovered.

The size of the depression is 5.50 x 3m and it is orientated North / South. The emergency escape passage was approximately 8m long, exiting by a rhododendron bush.

The rhododendron bush growing beside it is still in place. The OB has since been removed. We failed to establish if any of the objects found in the depression are remains left when the OB was removed or if they were dumped here at a later date.

Other physical remains nearby include two sections of railway track, one bent; 12 x 3 mm straps made from spring steel; piece of black rubber; indeterminate length of wire rope.

Patrol & OB pictures