Aux Command Chart - Nov 2009

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AUXILIARY UNITS Organisation Prime Minister (Winston Churchill) War Cabinet

War Office

Chiefs of Staff

Foreign Office

General Headquarters GHQ

Secret Intelligence Service MI6 Section D

Home Defence Org. COLESHILL HOUSE

HANNINGTON HALL

GHQ AUX UNITS BACHELORS HALL Sigs. Development Establishment

SDS HQ Aux Units Signals ATS

OC Capt. KenWard

OB's

SCOUT SECTION from

26+ 3

15 + 3

?

17 + 4 15 + 5 25 34 31

21? 1 + 19 16 + 8 26 + 3 41

Norfolk

35

40 + 2

Suffolk

28 +1

28 + 1

Essex

28

24 + 3

Kent

33 + 3

30 + 6

32 25

26 + 4 25

? ?

? ? ? Durham LI ? Green Howards Lincolnshire Leicestershires ? Herts and Beds Royal Norfolk Suffolk

SECTION OFFICERS

201 Bn Scotland

PATROLS

Essex WEST ?Royal West Kent

28 + 1

Hampshire

47

50 + 7

Dorset

32

36 + 2

Devon Cornwall

23 + 6 28

19 + 3 27 + 2

Somerset

44

50 + 4

Worcester Hereford Monmouth Glamorgan Camarthen Pembroke

6 +1

8

14 17

15 + 2 13 + 1

? ?

15

18

?

EAST Queens R. Regt ? Hampshire EAST Wiltshire WEST Dorsets Devons ? Duke of Cornwells LI N & E Welch S&W

?SLI ?

Scottish Northumbrian North Riding

Norfolk & Cambridge Essex & Suffolk South Eastern

Hants & Dorset

South Wales

203 Bn Southern Counties

21

I.O's SDS

Southern & South West

EAST Lovat Scouts WEST R. Sussex Regt. Sussex

AREAS North Highlands

E. Riding & Lincolnshire

202 Bn Midlands

AREAS Outer Hebrides Sutherland, Caithness, Ross Inverness, Nairn, Moray, Banff, Aberdeenshire Kincardine Angus, Fife, Lothian, Berwick, Roxburgh Dumfries Northumberland Durham, N Yorks E Riding Yorks Lincolnshire

IN-STATIONS (ATS)

OUT and SUBSTATIONS Note: Initialy (in 1940) there were only 12 Areas, later 22. OB = Operational Base (underground hides). SDS AGENTS and RUNNERS The Number of Patrols/OB's = Actual + those being prepared in 1941. Sources: Org. Chart from 'Churchills Underground Army' by John Warwicker, Scouts Info from Will Ward, 1941 Patrol & OB figures from 'Last Ditch' by David Lampe. Obviously there are many unknowns. If you can add anything or spot errors please email Tom Sykes - coleshillhouse@gmail.com Thank you.


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