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The Manor of Lackham IV : 19 th & 20 th century owners The first floor rooms on the southern side, overlooking the Terraces and the fields, were the location of Gen. Patton’s rooms and removal of plaster in a small side room here 394 room revealed even earlier wallpaper still in place (see above). It is understood that when D-Day was being planned Gen. Eisenhower visited Lackham, but no evidence for this has been located so far. It has been suggested that a pond on the estate created during World War II, as history has it, using explosives at General Patton’s behest to make a swimming pool for GIs while he was based at Lackham in the run-up to D- Day. 395 This is not true, all of the ponds and tanks that are visible today appear on the OS maps and estate sale maps back to at least 1850. There was a swimming pool on the estate but it was built after the war; “1949-50 Swimming pool excavated with direct labour [ie County Council staff] served the College well for twenty years” 396 Over fifty years later local residents still recalled soldiers being at Lackham, Nancie Howie remembered that Soldiers stationed at Lackham House who came to the village for a glass or two (or more) of beer, often missed the brook path and blundered through the brook and up the old Nethercote Hill and on to Lackham. Grandfather found many a soldiers’ hat floating in the 394 In 2000 395 Masson, S In the field of Higher Learning Shooting Times Weds 3 rd February 2010 http://www.shootingtimes.co.uk/features/440370/In_the_field_of_higher_learning.h tml 396 Thomas, JO (1984) [edited 2011 by the current author] Agricultural Education in Wiltshire p51 http://www.lackham.co.uk/history/Lackham%201946-1970.pdf 117
The Manor of Lackham IV : 19 th & 20 th century owners brook, past the garden and heading for the river. Especially when the Americans arrived 397 and in the archives at Lackham there is a roll of honour of the US Service men who were stationed at Lackham in 1944, made by Joan and Eileen Brunt (Joan later married Mr. Alford) who lived in Lacock, and she is still resident in the village. In the centre of the middle column is the name of the commanding officer, General George Patton The name at the top of the list, however, is Private Joseph E Walsh who was engaged to Eileen Brunt, although they never married. It is reported that the night before D Day, Private Walsh disobeyed orders and left Lackham to tell Eileen he was to leave for France. Joseph found he couldn't get back into Lackham without facing arrest. After dark Eileen's father Percy Brunt, a Lackham farm-worker, guided Joseph back across the fields, carefully avoiding the American sentries 398 397 Howe, Nancie M (1996) Memories of a Lacock Family private pub. p145 398 Unattributed notes in Lackham College Archives 118
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