Coleshill Auxiliary Research Team (CART) is a network of British historians.
It is named after
Coleshill in Oxfordshire where
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 (Winston Churchill in the Second World War, ...
had arranged for groups of soldiers, called
Auxiliary Units
The Auxiliary Units, Home Guard Shock Squads or GHQ Auxiliary Units were specially trained, highly secret quasi military units created by the British government during the Second World War with the aim of using irregular warfare in response to ...
, to develop and be trained in guerrilla war tactics for use in the event of a
Nazi invasion of England during World War II. CART is the largest group in the UK researching this force and have put together a national database listing the 3,500 men.
[ BBC History Magazine, April 2011, p.14]
Conservative MP
Justin Tomlinson has said of CART, "I fully support CART’s mission to honour their bravery. Their vital work should remain secret no longer."
References
External links
British Resistance Archive
British historians
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