- Contributed by听
- newcastle-staffs-lib
- People in story:听
- Syd Bailey
- Location of story:听
- Wolverhampton
- Background to story:听
- Civilian Force
- Article ID:听
- A3539919
- Contributed on:听
- 18 January 2005
In 1940 I was a Probationary Police Constable in Wolverhampton. One evening I was instructed to meet a police car, and I was then driven with 3 other officers towards Penn - where German parachutists were reported to have landed. Heavily armed with truncheons and whistles ( plus
handcuffs ) we then set out to search for
the enemy. What we were supposed to do when we found them was not made clear to us. What a heavily-armed German force would make of a welcoming committee of 4 policemen looking like the chorus in "The Pirates of Penzance" was anybody's guess - but the whole business turned out to be a false alarm so the problem never had to be resolved.
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