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

HELP INTO CIVIL LIFE

... HELP INTO CIVIL LIFE H. J. ABERDEIN, Gordon Highlanders, is one of J twenty Scotsmen to arrive recently at an Army civil resettlement unit at Cirencester, Gloucestershire. He writes in praise of what the authorities are doing by this means to help men ...

Published: Monday 05 November 1945
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 228 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

,'The Coldest Spot

... Forces built and used as an American Red Cross Hospital, The camp was recently taken over the British for use as a Civil Resettlement Unit, as described in the - *' Five Press •i* ;t week. The huts extend almost to the residence which is used to accommodate ...

Published: Thursday 27 December 1945
Newspaper: Suffolk and Essex Free Press
County: Suffolk, England
Type: Article | Words: 290 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

EX-P.O.W. RESETTLEMENT

... ex-Prisoners ©} War who feel themselves round pess| in square holes, are wan y N 2 Civil Resettlement Unit, at Peover Hall, Knutsford, Cheshire, between now and June. This unit, which 3s responsible for taking in ex-Prisoners of War north of a line from the ...

Published: Friday 11 April 1947
Newspaper: Barnoldswick & Earby Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 232 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

PERSONAL

... HOLLINS, Pottery Workers' Rftettletnent Advice A Representative the Labour Exchange. Habit. and CAPT. PARRADAY. Civil Resettlement Unit. Knutstord;* •,:and the BER It would he appreciated If .the.-auestiona were• sent to the Hon.. •Orgialer- Prior to ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 1946
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 222 | Page: 2 | 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

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

TO-DAY'S RADIO HOME (342.1m.).—3 The Passing the Regiments (Band of Ist Welch Regiment).—3.3o: Opera at Home ..

... Friday Discussion (White Bread or Brown ?).—8 : Frank Wclr and Orchestra.—B.3o : Stalag to Civvy Street (story of Civil Resettlement Unit) —9: Big Ben (Silent Minute); News.—9.ls : To-night's Talk.- 9.30: These Passing Shows.—lo : Consuelo '' (from story ...

Published: Friday 05 October 1945
Newspaper: Essex Newsman
County: Essex, England
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 206 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Pte. Bill Smedley Gets His Turkey 'Better Than Rice'

... Pear Tree-road, Derby, last night as he tackled a largo portion of turkey at Christmas party organised by No. 14 Civil Re-settlement Unit at Sudbury. Pte. Smedley was taken prisoner by the Japanese at Singapore while serving with the Ist Battalion the ...

Published: Friday 21 December 1945
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 232 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

RICCARTON HOUSE TO CLOSE | Fitted Ex-P.O.W.’s For New Jobs

... passed through the Civil Resettlement Unit at Riccarton House, Currie, which is now being disbanded. ) - So far as the authorities ‘havet been able to check, only 12 out of 1395 men have vegistered as unemployed since leaving the Unit. E ' The last of the ...

Published: Monday 29 July 1946
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 274 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

UNIONIST ASSOCIATION DISBANDS TEMPORARILY

... was taken prisoner and the next five years were spent in a prison camp. After the war Mr. How worked the staff of a Civil Resettlement Unit. This work gave him an extensive experience of the everyday problems involving jobs, families, health and housing ...

Published: Wednesday 03 October 1951
Newspaper: Kirkintilloch Herald
County: Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 266 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Sammy Asks His Dad In Quiz

... Shaw, the popular Derby boxing promoter, took par in a lively informal sports quiz with ex-prisoners of war at the Civil Resettlement Unit establishment at Sudbury yesterday. Sammy Crooks and Dally Duncan answered football posers; Capt. Stanley Worthington ...

Published: Thursday 17 January 1946
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 269 | Page: 5 | Tags: none