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MEMORIES and INFORMATION: 32nd Battn. (19)
32nd Staffordshire (Aldridge) Battalion
("B" Coy.)
STREETLY and
LITTLE ASTON MAP of TERRITORY
Magnified, high definition
version
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This page contains
a magnified, higher definition version of the
map shown on the
32nd Battalion "B" Company page. It is a battered and clearly
well-used, marked-up print of the 1920
Ordnance Survey map of the area and was
originally the property of Lt., later
Captain Harry Myers,
C.O. of No. 2, later No. 5 Platoon (although
probably not marked up by him). It shows the territory for which the Company
was responsible, effectively an inverted triangle with
its tip near to the
Parson & Clerk public house and
its base stretching from near
The Plough
and Harrow to the
Forge Lane
area of Little Aston.
Note
the location of Platoon HQs and the various points of importance,
perhaps vulnerable points, perhaps the
location of other Civil Defence and military sites
or even just the location of an accessible
telephone. It is interesting that there is no
mention of Company HQ which was located in a
requisitioned house on the corner of
Middleton
Road and
Manor Road
in Streetly,
"The
Greylands". This
suggests that the map was marked up at a very early
stage in the War and before the local Home Guard
Company had settled into the form which was to take
it through to December 1944. Note also that this
1920 map omits all of the housing development in the
area which had taken place during the 1920s and
1930s.
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To find references elsewhere within the
site to subjects mentioned above
please see: -
32nd Battalion Information Summary
Page
(Aldridge, Barr Beacon, Brownhills, Little Aston,
Pelsall, Pheasey,
Rushall,
Shelfield, Streetly,
Walsall Wood) - Index of Surnames
and Place Names
relating to the 32nd Battalion - or use the general website
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