Banstead Village

D Company 56th Surrey Home Guard

June 1941, Epsom Downs Station. Last parade of No ( Platoon C Company 56th Surrey HG, which then became No 14 Platoon D Company 56th Surrey HG.

Back Row L-R: Bert Franklin, Len Browse, Victor Clark, Charles Spalding, Fred Reid,? Fox, Pinky Pinkerton.

2nd from Back Row: L-R Cpl John Martin, Bill Wing, Lacon Guest,? Welsh, Jamie Jamieson, Cpl Dev White,? Hill, Charlie Hill, Pritch Pritchard.

2nd from Front L-R: Professor Hill, Jay Jarrett, Lloyd, Sgt Frank Bradley, Cpl Bish Bishop, Les Bromley, Herbert Fox.

Front Row L-R: ? Portch, Luc Lucas,? Cage, Tom Palmer (my Grandad).

My Grandparents, Mr & Mrs Thomas D Palmer, moved to Banstead in1937/38, my mother being born there in 1938, and living in Sandersfield Road.