Beverley South Patrol

Although the 1944 list shows two patrols of Beverley North and Beverley South, an earlier Home Guard transfer list shows there was possibly one Patrol to start with.

Mr G.W. Hardy explained as a 15 year old he acted as a messenger boy between Captain Carrington and Sergeant Sykes, who was replaced at some stage by Sergeant Wright who appears in the 1944 list as a private. Also Private Micklewaite, listed in the Walkington Patrol, is often referred to as a member of the Beverley Patrol.

In a written story by Auxillier Eddie Shaw, (his name appears on the Nominal Roll for the Beverley South Patrol) he states that his OB was the Beverley North Patrol. We can only conclude that there was indeed one Patrol for this area in the early set up days. He says that the OB was very damp and not fit for the storage of explosives and it was Eddie's job was to store the explosives but he doesn’t say where. He had a car loaned by the War Office and used this to transport the explosives for training. He also states than when a big exercise was going on they were called upon to take off their Home Guard flashes and become what he calls "Proper Soldiers".

The whole Patrol was sent to the Isle of Wight and Eddie states that they arrived by ferry at Freshwater and stayed in Lord Tennysons house, Farringford. They were detailed to march around the Island, a ten mile route march, twice a day, in shifts and were on the Island for ten days. They took the place of Canadian troops who had somewhat wrecked the house.