[1] For more information on the Culleys ee D. J Rowe, The Culleys, Northumberland Farmers 1767-1813, Agricultural History Review 19, 1971, 156-74
[2] For Jane Darling Culley in South Africa see the website of Lt Col (Retired) Kieron Spires, Nurses on the Veldt, 'The Ladies - Capable Women', accessed 17th March 2024, <https://boerwarnurses.com/the-ladies-capable-women/>
[3] Rudloe Manor was site of the HQ of 10 Group Fighter Command RAF during World War Two (Box People and Places website, Dave Wright and Barry Cox "10 Group RAF and RAF Rudloe Manor", accessed 17th March 2024, <http://www.boxpeopleandplaces.co.uk/raf-rudloe-manor.html>).
In addition, the various abandoned stone mines beneath Rudloe were used during the the Second World War. They housed ammunition storage, an underground naval stores depot, and a Ministry of Aircraft Production (MAP) factory. Use continued after the war and in the 1960s the main Emergency Government War Headquarters - the hub of the Country’s alternative seat of power outside London, code named 'Burlington' - was constructed underground in the former stone mines below Rudloe Manor (Box People and Places website, David Ibberson & Alan Payne "Nuclear Threat at Rudloe in 1950s and 1960s", accessed 17th March 2024, <http://www.boxpeopleandplaces.co.uk/rudloe-manor-1950-60s.html>).
The existence of this underground 'city' gave rise to all manner of offbeat theories including the suggestion that the stone mines were used to hold aliens. These ideas even generated TV programes such as 'The Mystery of Rudloe Manor, (broadcast May 2017) (IMDb, 'Ancient Aliens', series 12 episode 3 'The Riddle of Rudloe Manor", accessed 17th March 2024, <https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6846714/>). For the reality see the report prepared by Oxford Archaeology in 2007-8 for English Heritage, entitled Joint Support Unit (JSU), Corsham: A Characterisation Study Of The Quarries, Their 20th Century Defence Uses And Related Above-Ground Infrastructure, (accessible on-line from the Oxford Archaeology website, accessed 17th March 2024,
<http://corsham.thehumanjourney.net/pdfs/CORSHAM_report.pdf>)
In addition, the various abandoned stone mines beneath Rudloe were used during the the Second World War. They housed ammunition storage, an underground naval stores depot, and a Ministry of Aircraft Production (MAP) factory. Use continued after the war and in the 1960s the main Emergency Government War Headquarters - the hub of the Country’s alternative seat of power outside London, code named 'Burlington' - was constructed underground in the former stone mines below Rudloe Manor (Box People and Places website, David Ibberson & Alan Payne "Nuclear Threat at Rudloe in 1950s and 1960s", accessed 17th March 2024, <http://www.boxpeopleandplaces.co.uk/rudloe-manor-1950-60s.html>).
The existence of this underground 'city' gave rise to all manner of offbeat theories including the suggestion that the stone mines were used to hold aliens. These ideas even generated TV programes such as 'The Mystery of Rudloe Manor, (broadcast May 2017) (IMDb, 'Ancient Aliens', series 12 episode 3 'The Riddle of Rudloe Manor", accessed 17th March 2024, <https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6846714/>). For the reality see the report prepared by Oxford Archaeology in 2007-8 for English Heritage, entitled Joint Support Unit (JSU), Corsham: A Characterisation Study Of The Quarries, Their 20th Century Defence Uses And Related Above-Ground Infrastructure, (accessible on-line from the Oxford Archaeology website, accessed 17th March 2024,
<http://corsham.thehumanjourney.net/pdfs/CORSHAM_report.pdf>)
[4] Paradata - Airborne Assault, A Living History of the Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces, '53 Airlanding Light Regiment RA 1943 to 1947', accessed 26th December 2023, <https://www.paradata.org.uk/unit/53-airlanding-light-regiment-ra>
Commonwealth War Graves Commision, Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, 'Major GEORGE WILLIAM CULLEY', accessed 18th March 2024,
<https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2035951/george-william-culley/>
Commonwealth War Graves Commision, Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, 'Major GEORGE WILLIAM CULLEY', accessed 18th March 2024,
<https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2035951/george-william-culley/>
[5] Commonwealth War Graves Commision, Tobruk War Cemetery, 'Sergeant GEOFFREY MATTHEW CULLEY', accessed 18th March 2024,
<https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2225061/geoffrey-matthew-culley/>.
The Tobruk Cemetery was damaged in 2012 apparently by 'Islamist Militants':
The Guardian, 'British war graves in Libya desecrated apparently by Islamist miltants', accessed 18th March 2024,
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/mar/04/libya-war-graves-desecrated>
Aljazeer, 'World War II gtaves smashed in Libya', accessed 18th March 2024,
<https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2012/3/5/world-war-ii-graves-smashed-in-libya>
<https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2225061/geoffrey-matthew-culley/>.
The Tobruk Cemetery was damaged in 2012 apparently by 'Islamist Militants':
The Guardian, 'British war graves in Libya desecrated apparently by Islamist miltants', accessed 18th March 2024,
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/mar/04/libya-war-graves-desecrated>
Aljazeer, 'World War II gtaves smashed in Libya', accessed 18th March 2024,
<https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2012/3/5/world-war-ii-graves-smashed-in-libya>