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Officer Cadet Training Units 140th Officer Cadet Training Unit 162nd Officer Cadet Training Unit 2nd Sep 1939 Mobilisation 22nd March 1943 Posting 25th March 1943 Posting 8th Jan 1944 Concert 23rd Jan 1944 Postings 12th Feb 1944 Postings If you can provide any additional information, especially on actions and locations at specific dates, please add it here. Those known to have served with Officer Cadet Training Units during the Second World War 1939-1945. Piper Arthur Victor. Lt. Street MC. Eric Peter. Major. The names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List Records of Officer Cadet Training Units from other sources. The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website. Announcements 1st of September 2024 marks 25 years since the launch of the Wartime Memories Project. 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If the information here has been helpful or you have enjoyed reaching the stories please conside making a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting or this site will vanish from the web. If you enjoy this site please consider making a donation. Want to find out more about your relative's service? Want to know what life was like during the War? Our Library contains an ever growing number diary entries, personal letters and other documents, most transcribed into plain text. Wanted: Digital copies of Group photographs, Scrapbooks, Autograph books, photo albums, newspaper clippings, letters, postcards and ephemera relating to WW2. We would like to obtain digital copies of any documents or photographs relating to WW2 you may have at home. If you have any unwanted photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. Please get in touch for the postal address, do not sent them to our PO Box as packages are not accepted. World War 1 One ww1 wwII second 1939 1945 battalion Did you know? We also have a section on The Great War. and a Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations. Want to know more about Officer Cadet Training Units? There are:1323 items tagged Officer Cadet Training Units available in our Library   These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Second World War. Major. Eric Peter Street MC. 9th Field Squadron Royal Engineers Eric Street enlisted on 26th of September 1939 as a student at Oxford University. He was posted to 142 OCTU on 24th of April 1940. He joined 9th Field Squadron, RE as a 2nd Lieutenant on 15th of October 1940. He landed in North Africa in July 1942. He fought at Alamein with the 7th Armoured Division and in 1943 Italy at Palerno, Naples and Volturno. He landed in Normandy on D Day+5 and fought with the 7th through to Berlin where he stayed on to help with the rebuilding of Germany till his release in 1946. Richard Street Add to this record. Lt. Arthur Victor Piper Royal Engineers My father Vic Piper was employed as a carpenter/joiner before the war began and so was chosen to help train men in bridge building. As he died in 1954 when I was only 20 months old I only know a little of his army background from my mother. He enlisted into the Royal Engineers, embodied Territorial Army on the 22/11/1939 and was later made a serjeant and then appointed to an emergency commission as 2nd Lieutenant on 1/10/1944. He was stationed at Clitheroe for a time and in Folkestone. Whilst stationed at Clitheroe I believe he was involved in entertaining the troops and that is when he met the opera singer Kathleen Ferrier and they became good friends. My father invited her to our home to meet my mother where she gave an impromptu performance to their friends and her voice could apparently be heard all down the street! He was promoted War Substantive Lieutenant on 1/4/1945 having trained in 172 Class at 140th Officer Cadet Training Unit and on the 12/4/1945 was sent out to India to help with the bridge building etc there, returning on the 31/10/1945. I believe he was very unwell for a while in India, suffering from an unknown illness. From the many letters of condolence received by my mother after his death, from those who had served with him I understand he was very well liked and respected with a wicked sense of humour. I believe he kept the troops amused on the ships taking them to and from India. Glynis Mamlok Add to this record. Recomended Reading. 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