322nd Company orderly room and billets, Pheasey, Second World War
c. 1942–45 · Pheasey estate
10th Replacement Depot, Pheasey Estate orderly room.
Voices of Kingstanding explains that part of the Pheasey estate was requisitioned and, from 1942, American soldiers were placed there. “One of the occupying units was the 10th Replacement depot … a staging post sending soldiers coming over from the U.S. to replace American wounded/killed soldiers on the front. It was a satellite station to Whittington Barracks in Lichfield.”
The picture comes from Fran and Martin Collins’s book They Also Serve Who Stand and Wait (Brewin Books).
Local memories
What people who knew this place have said about it, in their own words. These are memories, not checked facts.
“My aunt, Barbara Connor, married a GI, Salvatore Taranto, who was stationed on the Pheasey Estate. He was a cook. They married on 27th May 1945 at Christ the King Catholic Church, and on 21st February, 1946, aged 19, she sailed to New York on the liner ‘Queen Mary’ to join her new husband.”
“My Uncle Ted Thoele was at Pheasy Farms arriving on Aug 24, 1944, he was in the 3187 Signal Service Battalion, he would stay until Sept 3 1944 en route to the war in France Via Omaha Beach.”
“My father was at Pheasey Farm in 1944 after he got out of the hospital for his wounds in France. It was a replacement center for G.I’s”
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