CART Auxiliary Unit Research

County Group

Locality

Sunk Island is a Crown Estate village in the East Riding of Yorkshire. It is approximately 3 1/2 miles south of Ottringham and around a mile from the shore of the Humber Estuary

Patrol members

Name	Occupation	Posted from	Until
Captain Harry North Dixon	Farmer	Unknown	Unknown
Sergeant John Rodham Wigham	Official agricultural committee	Unknown	03 Dec 1944
Corporal Charles Kenneth Ingram Todd	Farmer	Unknown	03 Dec 1944
Private James Carter-Smith	Agricultural machine superintendent	Unknown	03 Dec 1944
Private Robert Henry Dixon	Farmer	Unknown	1942
Private Arthur Edwin Dyson	Farmer	Unknown	Unknown
Private William Derrick Farndale	Tractor driver	Unknown	1942
Private Leonard Harrison	Tractor driver	Unknown	03 Dec 1944
Private John Alfred Edward Meadley	Farm worker	Unknown	03 Dec 1944

Operational Base (OB)

The Patrol OB was built into the bank side of Spragger Drain and approximately 350 yards from Spragger Clough Sluice on the Humber. Nothing now remains.

Patrol & OB pictures

Unknown, John Meadley, Jim Elliott, Unknown in LDV (from Keith Meadley)

Sunk Island Home Guard. Capt Harry Dixon middle and centre (from John Meadley)

OB Status

Destroyed

Location

Sunk Island Patrol

Patrol Targets

The Patrol's targets were land drainage system, along with the possible invasion beaches on the Humber and the coast to the east and roads from the east coast.

Military targets included Stone Creek Anti Aircraft Battery, Channel Farm Search Light battery and Spurn Head coastal battery.

Training

The Patrol trained locally on the coast and at Old Hall Farm and they also went to Middleton on the Wolds, the Headquarters of the Intelligence Officer for training. Some exercises with the Green Howards at Castleton were also organised.

It is thought Sergeant Wigham went to Coleshill for specialist training courses.

Weapons and Equipment

Weapons issued included; .22 sniper rifle with sights, Remington or Winchester rifles along with Colt .45 or Smith & Wesson pistols.

Some captured Lugars were issued and were sort after as they used the same 9mm ammunition as the Sten Machine Gun.

References

The East Riding at War

TNA ref WO199/3389

Hancock data held at B.R.A

1939 Register

Andy Gwynne

East Riding Secret Resistance by Alan Williamson

Keith Medley