CART Auxiliary Unit Research

County Group

Locality

Wrentham is a small village 2.5 miles from the coast, between Lowestoft and Southwold.

Patrol members

Name	Occupation	Posted from	Until
Sergeant Leonard Charles Hall	Farmer	Unknown	03 Dec 1944
Sergeant William Frederick Routledge		Unknown	Unknown
Private Walter G.W. Clark	Farm worker	Unknown	03 Dec 1944
Private Robert Gilmour	Tractor driver and milk man	Unknown	03 Dec 1944
Private Walter Richard Harper	Cowman	Unknown	03 Dec 1944
Private Thomas Armstrong Routledge	Shepherd	Unknown	03 Dec 1944
Private Maurice Greenwood Walton		Unknown	03 Dec 1944

Operational Base (OB)

The OB was situated at the bottom of a disused marl pit at the north-eastern corner of a small woodland called Copper Covert, near West End, Wrentham.

The pit is full of water and appears to have recently been dredged and its banks landscaped, with the aim of forming a wildlife pond.

According to Auxilier Wally Clark, the OB was located at the bottom of the pit and commonly flooded.
Because of this action we were unable to determine what might be left of the OB, described to us as having been at the bottom of the pit. We observed a section of brick wall as well as a number of flat corrugated iron sheets lying halfway up the pit’s northern and southern banks. We concluded that these remains would have formed part of the OB, which we believe was destroyed when the pond was created.

Other physical remains found nearby were a small pot, shards of broken ceramic plate, small pieces of metal, metal shoe last.

Patrol & OB pictures