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HOME GUARD MEMORIES AND INFORMATION - WARWICKSHIRE, BIRMINGHAM
27th WARWICKSHIRE (B'HAM) BATTN.
FACTORY UNITS
CADBURY, BOURNVILLE
KALAMAZOO, NORTHFIELD
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The 27th
Warwickshire (Birmingham) Battalion was
responsible for
King's Norton and adjacent areas which
included the
Cadbury's
factory site in
Bournville and
Kalamazoo in
Northfield.
(Further Battalion
information and images are available
elsewhere within this website).
CADBURY
FACTORY, BOURNVILLE
The
following page appeared in a 1941 issue of the
Bournville Magazine.
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KALAMAZOO,
NORTHFIELD
This undated image
shows members of the Kalamazoo factory unit.
(Note the barrage balloon in the top left
corner). |
IDENTIFICATIONS (to date)
Front
row, seated:
from the left, 6th - Tom
Morland (son of a Company
founder)
7th - Fred Coggan (a
factory foreman)
Second row back:
from the right,
3rd -
Jack Welch
5th - Ted Turner (a
survivor of the Battle of the Somme)
Seated cross-legged at the front, on the
left:
an unidentfied young man who
was later called up and was killed in action
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Grateful
acknowledgement is made:
- for
Cadbury's
to
mikejee of the
Birmingham History Forum for having brought this
information to the attention of staffshomeguard.
That Forum includes various threads discussing the
Home Guard, including
this one.
- for Kalamazoo
to John
Welch and the
Northfield Past, Present and Future
Facebook page
Kalamazoo image © John Welch 2019
FURTHER INFORMATION
For other
King's Norton/27th Battalion information,
please see this
page. For
all other Memories and Information concerning the Home
Guard in Birmingham and elsewhere in Warwickshire,
please click the MEMORIES -
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In Memory of
All Members of
the 27th Warwickshire (Birmingham) Battalion
(1940 - 1944)
in
Bournville,
King's Norton and Northfield |
x135 - May 2016,
updated November, December 2019, January 2020
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