This is the nominal roll of one of the two Birmingham City Transport Home Guard battalions - the 31st Warwickshire (Birmingham) Battalion - as published in the Battalions' commemorative booklet of January 1945.

(Please see the INTRODUCTION page for information about this booklet.
And for other sections of the booklet which appear on associated pages of this website, please see below).

 

.....next page: A List of Members of the 32nd Battalion.

ADDITIONAL "E" Coy. INFORMATION

2/Lt. J.I. Brasenell (1890-1971) is listed above as a Battle Platoon Officer in "E" Coy., i/c 18B Platoon. Lt. Brasenell had seen Great War service in North Africa and Palestine fighting the Turks. He was a sergeant with a platoon of Arabs, and he gained a good knowledge of Arabic. By 1940 he was a tram driver based at Washwood Heath and was therefore too old for normal military service - hence his membership of the Home Guard.

All sections of this booklet appear in this website: - Introduction - A Record of the Battalions' activities - The Senior Officers - A List of Members of the 31st Battalion (this page). - A List of Members of the 32nd Battalion.

Acknowledgements
Grateful acknowledgement is made to Joan and John Nicholls who most generously donated a copy of this Battalion record to staffshomeguard; to Matt Felkin and his "Wartime Birmingham and the Blitz" Facebook page;  to the Birmingham History Forum; to the then Birmingham City Council for permitting and funding the creation of this invaluable historical record; and to Alan F. Brookes for information about his grandfather, 2/Lt. J.I. Brasenell.

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