Blue Anchor Patrol

Locality

Blue Anchor is a seaside village, in the parish of Old Cleeve, in the West Somerset district of Somerset.

Patrol members
Name Occupation Posted from Until
Sergeant Frederick Mallett Hepper

General farmer

12 Jun 1940 03 Dec 1944
Private Douglas Hepper

General farmer

12 Jun 1940 03 Dec 1944
Private John Thomas Neville Hepper

Farmer mixed farm

Unknown 03 Dec 1944
Private Arthur John Hepper 03 Jul 1941 09 Nov 1942
Private Geoffrey Powell Leversha

Dairy farmer

04 Jan 1941 03 Dec 1944
Private Thomas Moggridge

Chauffeur & handyman

03 Jul 1940 03 Dec 1944
Private Reginald John Pinchin

Estate manager

31 Jul 1941 06 May 1943
Private John Lester Watts

Farmer

25 May 1942 24 Apr 1943
Operational Base (OB)

The Patrol had two OBs. One was recorded as being a Withycombe Plantation and was destroyed during post war forestry work.

The other was in Croydon Woods on Croydon Hill.

OB Status
Location not known
Location

Blue Anchor Patrol

References

TNA ref WO199/3390 & WO199/3391

Hancock data held at B.R.A

1939 Register

Donald Brown