Anthony Jack Harrison

“Standing Up to Hitler”, Adrian Hoare (1997/2002) page 243:

“I became a member of a group in 202 Battalion in 1942 based at Halesworth. There were six of us and I served until I was called up in 1944. I still have my copy of the ‘1938 Calendar’, which was our instruction manual on the use of various booby traps, time delay pencils, explosive charges and their fuses, anti personnel devices, etc. Our concrete underground bunker was near the windmill at Holton. We had a variety of weapons including Sten guns, .38 revolvers, Thompson machine guns and rifles. I remember doing exercises, and on one occasion we were taken to somewhere near Woodbridge, where we had to practise blowing up trees in the grounds of a country house. We had gelignite but also were given some of the new plastic explosive. We were trained in a variety of skills such as shooting, sabotage, unarmed combat, etc. I had signed the Official Secrets Act and my family knew nothing of my activities.” Mr A. J. Harrison, Rollesby, Great Yarmouth