Thomas Russell-Stevens

It is thought that the operator of this outstation was Dr Russell Stevens, a family doctor and also surgeon at Dorset County Hospital, then in the centre of Dorchester. He lived in West Walks House adjacent the hospital and overlooking the park, with the main road from the south passing on the other side. This would have meant good views of any Germans moving out from an invasion in the Weymouth area.

Dr Stevens was a keen photographer and in 1936 founded Dorchester Camera Club. He was also a radio "ham" before the war and was an early member of South Dorset Radio Group after the war, becoming its first President. His call sign (appropriately for ‘Doc’ Stevens) was G3DUQ.

Wrackleford Patrol member George Northover remembers Dr Russell Stevens well. He was the surgeon who had helped manage his mother’s medical problems for many years. He recalls being taken into to his house to be shown the radio equipment and told how he had contacted people from all around the world with this. He never knew that he was part of Auxiliary Units until 2014.