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Royal Observer Corps 27th Sep 1939 Seachlights 30th Sep 1939 Training 13th Apr 1941 Training If you can provide any additional information, especially on actions and locations at specific dates, please add it here. Those known to have served with Royal Observer Corps during the Second World War 1939-1945. Clarke Ernest. Merrin Charles Edward. Pattle Horace Leonard. The names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List Records of Royal Observer Corps from other sources. The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website. Announcements The Wartime Memories Project has been running for 24 years. 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If the information here has been helpful or you have enjoyed reaching the stories please conside making a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting or this site will vanish from the web. If you enjoy this site please consider making a donation. Want to find out more about your relative's service? Want to know what life was like during the War? Our Library contains an ever growing number diary entries, personal letters and other documents, most transcribed into plain text. We are now on Facebook. Like this page to receive our updates. If you have a general question please post it on our Facebook page. Wanted: Digital copies of Group photographs, Scrapbooks, Autograph books, photo albums, newspaper clippings, letters, postcards and ephemera relating to WW2. We would like to obtain digital copies of any documents or photographs relating to WW2 you may have at home. If you have any unwanted photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. Please get in touch for the postal address, do not sent them to our PO Box as packages are not accepted. World War 1 One ww1 wwII second 1939 1945 battalion Did you know? We also have a section on The Great War. and a Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations. Want to know more about Royal Observer Corps? There are:1320 items tagged Royal Observer Corps available in our Library   These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Second World War. Charles Edward Merrin Royal Observer Corps My Dad, Charles Merrin was on essential services at British Celanese in Spondon. They turned him down for joining the armed services because of this, so he applied to the Observer Corps, spotting planes in a dug out at night during the war. He went for training, and came home with a great coat, the colour was grey, to keep him warm in the winter on night duty. I helped him distinguish the planes with flash cards they were issued so he could recognize them through night binoculars. I think I was 8 or 9 yrs old at the time, and was very proud of my Dad with the volunteer work that he did during world war two. These men/women are never mentioned when the war is talked about, but they did very important work. Jerries tried to bomb British Celanese, which at that time was producing bombs for the RAF also silk to make parachutes for the pilots. They would fly down the Derwent Canal from the start right down through Derby and across Spondon, but Celanese was well camouflaged so it wasn't easy to spot from the air. That is all I remember as a child. Add to this record. Ernest "Ernie" Clarke Royal Observer Corps An old photo has emerged showing my granddad, Ernest Clarke, and his brother Harry Clarke in the Royal Observer Corps in World War II. It was taken in Whitby North Yorkshire, at Whitby Abbey. Roy Barlow Add to this record. Horace Leonard Pattle Royal Observer Corps I remember my Dad, Horace Pattle, going on duty atop the hill outside Stowmarket, Suffolk, binoculars slung over his shoulder, bike clips round his trouser legs, & I think he wore a navy-blue beret. We had all learned to recognize the silhouettes of the planes when they were caught in the searchlight beams. We learned them from the black bakelite models my Dad was provided with. My favourite was the shiny Spitfire. I remember the day the model planes arrived with a man and his dog, a liver-and-white spaniel named "Boofas" (Boofas made good use of the flower planter at the end of our driveway,and of his master's car tyre) My mother might have been a bit scared and lonely on the evenings my Dad was on duty but she didn't show it to us children. We survived the air-raids and "doodlebug" bombs and when peace was declared I came downstairs the next morning stating "Well, if this is peace, it's not very exciting!!" Ungrateful child!! Mary Pattle Hover Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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