STS 03 Stodham Park, Liss, Hampshire

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STS 3 Stodham Park

Initially it was the depot/preliminary school, for Norwegians.
Later: special courses, staff training and foreign weapons instruction for a variety of nationalities;
Students'' Assessment Board (SAB) for would-be British and US/OSS Jedburgh members; training for BONZOs and Soviets captured while serving with the German Army.

An information board (unveiled June 2024)about the establishment is located on the Riverside Walk, by the railway station, in the centre of Liss Village.

More info in Traces of War under.

Originally opened as a Preliminary School, on the establishment of the SAB it became an Operational Holding School. As of 1 January 1943, the school was commanded by Major AW Godfrey.

With the advent of the JEDBURGH scheme to support Operation OVERLORD, the numbers of officers and NCOs involved were too great to be handled by the SAB at STS7. In November 1943, therefore, a temporary board, known as No. 205 Selection Board, was established at STS3 under the command of Maj Sinclair, Deputy President of the SAB.

It was decided within SOE that agents required instruction in the use of enemy mines, demolition equipment and booby-traps, as well as in the laying and neutralising of Allied mines. To meet these requirements, a specialist course in mines, foreign weapons and demolition equipment was instituted at STS3 in May 1944. In July the course was transferred to STS47 where it remained until its disbandment in June 1945.128 To support the course, a ‘comprehensive museum was established (to which the specimens from Group A were added on its disbandment) and a cottage was rigged with every known type of booby trap (connected to bells) in which students could test out their knowledge’

Les mere om STS'ene i "Built to Resist An Assessment of the Special Operations Executive’s Infrastructure in the United Kingdom during the Second World War, 1940-1946" se under.

Bruk Ctrl/F og søk i filen på "STS 31" - det er store filer. Det er garantert mye annet spennende stoff der også, verdt en hel studie for de ivrigste.

Disse to PDF filer er en Doktorgradsoppgave i 2 deler av Derwin Gregory, University of East Anglia. om SOE infrastructure i UK 1940 til 1946.

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