EX-P.O.W. RESETTLEMENT

... EX-P.O.W. RESETTLEMENT. Twelve hundred ex-prisoners of IWar who feel themselves round pegs 'in square holes, are wanted by No. 2 Civil Resettlement Unit, at Peover Hall, Knutsford, Cheshire, between now .and June. This unit, which is ...

Published: Friday 16 May 1947
Newspaper: Nelson Leader
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 103 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

STUDY OF HOUSING

... dispatches. Subsequently he was appointed colonel-in-charge of the Ist Battalion, and recently has been in charge of a civil re-settlement unit in the Birmingham area. Mr Stanton Starkey has made a special study of housing and has inaugurated a scheme for the ...

Published: Monday 17 February 1947
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 99 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

IW.V.S. Flashes

... heading Centro • Fleshes. given in tne W.V.S. Bulletin,' include the following:— Leeds W.V.S., at the request of the Civil Resettlement Unit at Harrogate, made over 300 visits to ex-prisoners -of-war and completed reports on 170 men. Wakefield W.V.S. has ...

Published: Tuesday 07 January 1947
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 133 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

End of Operation Resettlement

... End of Operation Resettlement A unique chapter in the history! of the British Army will come to its end this month when No. 2 Civil Resettlement Unit closes down at Peover Hall. Knutsford, Cheshire. It was in July. 1945. that No. 2 C.R.U. was born in ...

Published: Thursday 12 June 1947
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 229 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Undeb Cymru Fydd PROTEST .YN_ERBYN Street

... Undeb Cymru Fydd PROTEST .YN_ERBYN Street MEDDIANU Yng nghyfarfod o Undeb Cymru Fydd a gynhaliwyd yn Llanrwst No. 2 Civil Resettlement Unit. at I Dygwyl Dewi. dan lywyddiaeth Mr. Peover Hall. Knutsford, Cheshire. R. A. Gillespie, pasiwyd pleidlais has vacancies ...

Published: Thursday 13 March 1947
Newspaper: North Wales Weekly News
County: Denbighshire, Wales
Type: | Words: 210 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Membership Appeal

... front ZS. the Colonel of No. 2 Civil Resettlement Unit, by Mrs. a M. Gimson, deputy county director, thanking the Red Cross fsr invaluable co-operation in getting 2.500 repatriated men to undertake the course at the unit, and for the hard work put in to ...

Published: Friday 20 June 1947
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 310 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE YORKS

... y appointed Lieut.-Colonel in command of the Ist Battalion Grenadier Guards. Recently he has been in charge of a Civil Resettlement Unit in the Birmingham district. He is especially interested in housing. Stationed at Windsor in 1945. he inaugurated a ...

‘News’ Uduice CHATTY SIDE of the News

... the News Wanted—looo British ex-P.O.W. who find themselves “round pegs in square holes ” in “ Civvy Street.” No. 2 Civil Resettlement Unit, at Peover Hall, Knutsford, Cheshire, has vacancies for this number between now and June. 5 All ex-P.O.W. north of ...

Published: Friday 21 March 1947
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 574 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

DAY BY DAY

... End of the Chapter The Civil Resettlement Unit (No. 2) at Peover Hall. Knuts'ford, established in July. 1!143. closes this month. With it will come to an end a unique chapter in the British Army. It was the second of such units to be formed, and the pioneer ...

Published: Wednesday 11 June 1947
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 679 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE FALKIRK HERALD WEDNESDAY MARCH 26 1947 IN THE FRONT LINE

... vacancies between now and June for 1000 British ex-P.o.W. who find themselves round pegs in square holes’’ in civil life at No. 2 Civil Resettlement Unit, Peover Hall, Knutsford, Cheshire. All ex-P.o.W, north of a line from the Bristol Channel to the Waah. including ...

Published: Wednesday 26 March 1947
Newspaper: Falkirk Herald
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 671 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT

... of the British Army will come to r.n end this month when No. 2 Civil Resettlement Unit closes down at Peover Hall, not far from the Staffordshire—Cheshire bor. cer. The story of the unit is one of a successful experiment which had many critics in its ...

Published: Saturday 14 June 1947
Newspaper: Staffordshire Advertiser
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 685 | Page: 5 | Tags: none