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HALF-WAY HALL FOR REPATRIATED MEN GUIDING THEM BACK TO CIVILIAN LIFE The first Civil Resettlement Unit in the ..

... HALF-WAY HALL FOR REPATRIATED MEN GUIDING THEM BACK TO CIVILIAN LIFE The first Civil Resettlement Unit in the Midlands for repatriated prisoners-of-war discharged or released from the Army to be opened on Thursday at Wightwick Hall, near Wolverhampton ...

Published: Tuesday 31 July 1945
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
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Spring Beds and Sheets ... and Only Pay Parades FIRST MIDLAND C.R.U. WILL BE SOLDIERS’ UtOPIA first Civil ..

... Army, authorities. Since it was decided to use it as a Civil Resettlement Unit considerable alterations have been made. modation are above the ordinary barrack standard.” The men can go to the unit nearest their homes; they can have leave every week-end ...

Published: Tuesday 31 July 1945
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 508 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Head Hunters Helped Airmen 'NORTH RESETTLEMENT CAMP OPENING Problems of prisoners of war returning to this ..

... Head Hunters Helped Airmen 'NORTH RESETTLEMENT CAMP OPENING Problems of prisoners of war returning to this country after years in the 'unreal world of a prison camp, will be tackled at a new Civil Resettlement' Unit which is being established at Washington ...

Published: Saturday 25 August 1945
Newspaper: Shields Daily News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 111 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

HELPING OUR EX-P.O.W.S

... have been converting Wightwick Hall, near Wolverhampton, into a civil resettlement unit for British repatriated prisoners of war, the first of whom arrived there to-day. The M.O. of the unit is a Northfield doctor, who qualifield at Birmingham University ...

Published: Thursday 02 August 1945
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 97 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ADJUSTMENT TO CIVIL LIFE

... ADJUSTMENT TO CIVIL LIFE FIRST ARRIVALS AT MIDLAND UNIT The first Civil Resettlement Unit in the Midlands, and one of the first in the country, was opened to-day at Wightwick Hall, near Wolverhampton. The work of getting the ...

Published: Thursday 02 August 1945
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 193 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Half-Way House Down Civvy-St

... are Merseysiders, and all are repatriates who have spent long periods in German prison camps and are now in No. 2 Civil Resettlement Unit. The halfway house which is their headquarters is Peover Hall —Elizabethan and 19th Century Cheshire country mansion ...

Published: Friday 24 August 1945
Newspaper: Liverpool Evening Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 235 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BATH NEWS OF INTEREST

... the day seeing how the work was done. They were three released prisoners of war. and visited the Exchange from the Civil Re-settlement Unit Cirencester, the idea being that men who had been prisoners for long time might need some reeducation the ways of ...

Published: Wednesday 08 August 1945
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 234 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

The Royal Visit

... quickly. The Ilkiey Unit From Our Own Correspondent The headquarters of the Civil Resettlement Unit are at the Middelton Hotel. Ilkley, and the unit Is expected to receive 60 men a week with a maximum strength of 240. This will be the only ...