Cecil Victor Baker

The family have his stand down letter from 1944. They remember he had a Webley pistol and 1800 rounds which he did not hand in until 1987! He spoke of wearing denims, with no unit insignia, no badges of rank, not saluting officers and carry concealed weapons, usually pistols, not rifles.

He also spoke about going on a training course a long way from his home, and training alongside what he called regulars who were good scroungers.

He had explosives stored in his house, which he described as sticky bombs and Mills bombs but was asked to move them by his wife after a stray German bomb fell a short distance away, this would have been May 1941.