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... refused to be beaten, and before long was back with his regiment again. He commanded the No. 7 Civil Re-settlement Unit at Lilford. With the closing of the unit, he retired from the Army and went to live at The Follies. Help. ston. Fifth son of the late ...

Published: Friday 31 October 1958
Newspaper: Peterborough Standard
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: | Words: 186 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

FORMER A.D.C. TO KING AND QUEEN DIES AT FOWEY

... at Chatham. After the war Brig. Christie remained in the Army until 1951 and for a time acted as commandant of a civil resettlement unit for returning prisoners of war, a scheme Brig. Christie described as the most worth-while job the Army ever did ...

Published: Thursday 17 November 1966
Newspaper: Cornish Guardian
County: Cornwall, England
Type: | Words: 1083 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

XWTE BY FRANK CHAPMAN z The Courier December 22 1995 37 - trip SIXTY-FIVE years ago an organ abandoned by

... their houses in very damp condition Repatriation BO YEARS AGO: From the Kent & Sussex Courier December 21 1945: A CIVIL Resettlement Unit has opened its gates at Mabledon Park Tonbridge for repatriated prisoners of war and by the New Year it is expected ...

Published: Friday 22 December 1995
Newspaper: Kent & Sussex Courier
County: Kent, England
Type: | Words: 1276 | Page: 37 | Tags: none

Evening News Thursday -February 8 1996 7 pages far Letters Cambridge Evening News 51 C85 Fax: 460846 E-Maii: ..

... was the No 5 Civil Resettlement Unit at Long Melford Suffolk where the repatriated men of the Cambridgeshire Regiment and other East Anglian ex-prisoners of war may take or are taking a month's course in preparation for full return to civil life FROM THE ...

Published: Thursday 08 February 1996
Newspaper: Cambridge Daily News
County: Cambridgeshire, England
Type: | Words: 1684 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

4 WEDNESDAY July 24 1996 The Birmingham Pest MIDLAND MIDLAND DIGEST Czech visitor hurt in Crash horror A ..

... programme to obtain recruits for the National Fire Service a party of repatriated British prisoners of war from the Civil Resettlement Unit at Stourport was taken round the Central Fire Station in Corporation Street and afterwards to the Regional Training ...

Published: Wednesday 24 July 1996
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 3070 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

COUNTY TIMES AND GAZETTE SATURDAY JULY 29 1950 5 lfc WEDDINGS WOODRUFF— WATTS Dressed in a gown of white crepe

... t home and he offered it as a hospital previous to the outbreak of the 1939-45 War and later it became the first Civil Resettlement Unit The State Rooms are full of fine and interesting things The features the Marble Hall with screen minstrel’s gallery ...

Published: Saturday 29 July 1950
Newspaper: Middlesex County Times
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 6409 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THERE is a dovecote, rabbits in a cage, whitepainted ornamental wheelbarrows set against a green lawn at ..

... at Fazakerley Resettlement Unit. Inside the buildings, there is the smell of lunch cooking, a cricket match on television is attracting a lot of attention the scene is wholesome and cheerful. Small wonder then, that those who run the unit for single, homeless ...

Published: Tuesday 20 August 1985
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 527 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

6;45Y Ist. EDITION MASS RESETTLEMENT OF 5,000 FRENCH MINERS

... 6;45Y Ist. EDITION MASS RESETTLEMENT OF 5,000 FRENCH MINERS Escape Doors for Houses Birmingham Committee to See Demonstration By a London Staff Reporter An experimental escape door which will be demonstrated to members of the Birmingham Housing Management ...

Published: Tuesday 17 August 1954
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 5751 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Civil Defence Coventry Satisfactory

... Civil Defence Coventry Satisfactory NO SPECIAL DRIVE DURING NATIONAL CAMPAIGN IOVENTRY Civil Defence Corps will not make any special drive to obtain recruits, such as the doorto-door campaigns held In the past, when the national Civil Defence publicity ...

Published: Tuesday 16 August 1960
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 853 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

CIVIL DEFENCE

... CIVIL DEFENCE Sir,—l should like to raise amicable solution can be found would not wish it to be thought three points in connection with if both are willing to look for that it is in any way opposed Mr. Torrington's apologia for one. to the reduction ...

Published: Thursday 26 March 1959
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 2725 | Page: 29 | Tags: none

CIVIL DEFENCE

... CIVIL DEFENCE Sir,—l should like to raise three points in connection with Mr. Torrington's apologia for Civil Defence (The Binninghens Post, March 191. First, It is encouraging to hear him agree that the ghastly facts of nuclear bombardment ehould be ...

Published: Thursday 26 March 1959
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 2401 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

IN PEACE MENU ELEPHANT meat is being used to supplement the diet of Africans in the Lusitu resettlement area in

... IN PEACE MENU ELEPHANT meat is being used to supplement the diet of Africans in the Lusitu resettlement area in Northern Rhodesia Medical authorities reported that a lack of pro tein in the diet of the people was one reason for the susceptibility to dysentery ...

Published: Friday 20 March 1959
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Echo
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 2765 | Page: 11 | Tags: none