You never know...well buying some chips at Shepherd Street, Biddulph we got chatting about americans in Biddulph during world war 2 and they used the old wood yard next door. I had done a little bit of research on the subject and here are some links:
I can confirm that
elements of the 87th Infantry Division, specifically the
345th Infantry Regiment (my father’s regiment), stayed in Biddulph
for a short while before embarking to France.
From an official
standpoint, this is documented in our history book, which you can download
here:
Download the “Combined
History Book”. This is a PDF document that is text-searchable. When I searched
on “Biddulph”, two references from the 345th section were
found.
A search of “Biddulph”
on our web site provides these three links:
