Ron Champion was recalled as a Patrol member by surving members of the Patrol interviewed by Tim Wray. He does not appear on the nominal roll. He worked at Standard Check.
| Unit or location | Role | Posted from | until |
|---|---|---|---|
| Midsomer Norton Patrol | Patrol member | 1940 | June 1942 |
Clerk
The son of Leonard and Ethel he married Roma Shearn in 1950.
Tim Wray recalled; "After this he enlisted in the Royal Navy and did his training in H.M.S. RALEIGH in Torpoint, East Cornwall. During his wartime service as a Stoker, Ron served in H.M.S. ARBELLA, which was a Combined Operations Landing Craft Training Establishment based in the old St John’s Workhouse next to the docks in Boston, Lincolnshire. H.M.S. ARBELLA was commissioned on 21 January 1943 and paid off on 9 August 1945. As a former Navy man myself we always had a lot to talk about whenever I visited Ron.
On 31 May 2022 Ron recently celebrated his 100th birthday and received a congratulatory card from H.M. The Queen. He and his wife of 72 years lived in their own home in Midsomer Norton.
The attached photograph below shows Ron reading the recent Clement Wisdom novels about the wartime Auxiliary Units written by author Victoria M. Knox, who lives in Australia. Ron read the first three novels in the series, but not the fourth. He told me that he really enjoyed them".
The Somerset Underground, Tim Wray