After training with the Civilian Technical Corps in Cranwell, Lincolnshire, England, Edward Martin was stationed at Schoolhill Radar Station located in Portlethen, Scotland.  He was then called to active duty by the U.S. Army and was to report for duty in London, England.  While enroute from Portlethen to London, a request from the British run Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) had already gone through requesting his service with TRE in Malvern, England.
     After working there for several months, he was supposed to go back for assignment with the U.S. Army. Once again, his superiors at TRE requested (and obtained) another extension to the time he worked at TRE.  They needed him for continuation of a project code named 'Boozer'.
      This project dealt with the development and implementation of equipment that would simulate the German radar detection equipment of that time.  Two frequencies were used by German radar.  One was used by ground stations, and the other frequency (which was basically twice the frequency of the first) was used by German aircraft to detect the British and Allied planes.  For british pilots, being able to determine if German radar had detected them was crucial to successfull missions, so a radar-detection unit which detected the higher frequency radar carried by the German planes was located in the tail section of the British plane. Another unit, which detected the lower frequency radar used by German ground stations, was located in the nose of the plane.
     The simulation equipment developed by TRE (Project 'Boozer') was used on the ground at airfields to test the radar-detecting equipment of the British planes to make sure it was working properly before the planes embarked on missions.

TRE had moved from Worth Matravers, located on the southern coast of England, to Malvern which was further inland.  This provided better protection from enemy air raids.  TRE had moved into The Malvern Girls' College in Malvern, England in May of 1942.

Edward Martin obtained what was basically a tourist's informational booklet about Malvern and the surrounding area that was printed sometime in the late 1930's or early 1940's.  On the next page you will find links to images of each of the pages of the booklet.  You can view each page by clicking on the approprtiate link, or you can download the complete archive as a .zip file if you have a program such as WinZip or other .zip utility software.