Witley Military Camp, often simplified to Camp Witley, was a temporary army camp set up on Witley Common, Surrey, England during both the First and Second...
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workings. Witley Common again proved useful during the First and Second World Wars when the land was used by the army as a training camp (Witley Camp) with...
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estimated 100,000 soldiers stationed in the vicinity of Witley and Thursley in 1942. At Jasper Camp, Sangret enrolled in a newly formed 12-week educational...
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Kinmel in March 1919 and at Witley Camp that June. Between November 1918 and June 1919 Canadian troops rioted in British camps thirteen times, including...
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Farncombe. During the First World War, soldiers were billeted at nearby Witley Camp. A canteen was set up in Croft Road for those arriving via Godalming...
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Army's Bordon Camp. Bramshott was one of two temporary camps set-up for additional accommodation in the lead-up to D-Day, along with Witley Camp. There were...
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the Battery received its initial training at Witley Camp, and then followed a path through Ewshot Camp: Artillery School in Hampshire, in Aldershot at...
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personnel would join the PRC programmes. The corps had its headquarters in Witley Camp and was commanded by Brigadier William Bain Thomas and the Polish major-general...
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musketry course and a Review by Lord Kitchener, the Battalion moved to Witley Camp North, marching past His Majesty the King and Lord Kitchener, 12 August...
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Flers–Courcelette in September 1916. He attended a gunnery course at Witley Camp in England in February 1917, but returned to lead the 11th Battery in...
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canvas, titled "Physical Training at Witley Camp" which featured Joe Shears. Shears escaped a German prison camp by crawling through a sewer. After the...
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Liverpool, the 157th was stationed for only a week at Witley Camp before proceeding to Bramshott Camp as part of the 7th Training Brigade. Like so many CEF...
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Great Witley is a village and civil parish in the Malvern Hills District in the northwest of the county of Worcestershire, England. It is situated around...
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his recommendation for the DCM. A letter from a Truro soldier based in Witley Camp, Surrey, England on July 29, 1917, that was published in the Truro Daily...
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It went to Codford near Salisbury Plain, and then in April 1916 to Witley Camp in Surrey. On 8 April it became 7th Reserve Bn, Lancashire Fusiliers...
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Flanders). The poem was probably written in Milford Camp, Surrey, which was a part of Witley Camp. The poem's title echoes a line from Revelation 21:1...
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training drafts for the 1/5th and 2/5th Bns. Early in 1916 it moved to Witley Camp in Surrey. On 8 April that year it was renamed the 5th Reserve Bn, Manchester...
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assigned to the 13th Brigade of the 5th Canadian Division, and was based at Witley Camp. On February 12, 1918, it was learned that the 5th Canadian Division...
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courses. This was completed by 9 August, when the infantry began moving to Witley Camp in Surrey. Although its training was still woefully inadequate (the K1...
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13, 1916, to England on RMS Olympic, the 219th Battalion was based at Witley Camp and later relocated to Bramshott. The battalion was absorbed into the...
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non-commissioned officers and men were sent to the 156th Battalion in Witley Camp on June 13. Another twenty other ranks joined them four days later, never...
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Little Witley is a village and civil parish in the Malvern Hills District in the county of Worcestershire, England. There has been little if any evidence...
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Warwickshire - which William Shakespeare attended King Edward's School, Witley, near Godalming in Surrey King Edward's School, Yeovil, Somerset King Edward...
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diagnosed with cancer in 1987. He died from its effects at his family home in Witley, Surrey, on 26 July 1994, at the age of 67. He said of his last illness:...
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Woodbury Hill is a hill near the village of Great Witley, about 5 miles (8 km) south-west of Stourport-on-Severn in Worcestershire, England. It is the...
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17. He inherited a substantial fortune and the palatial family seat at Witley Court. Dudley sat with the Conservative Party in the House of Lords, and...
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uncultivated open land made up of the remainder of Thursley Common and of Witley Common. Across the A3 is the main hillside neighbourhood of Thursley, Bowlhead...
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and Godalming Navigations Runnymede Shalford Mill Winkworth Arboretum The Witley Centre Alfriston Clergy House Bateman's Birling Gap Bodiam Castle Lamb House...
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promotional clip for "A Whiter Shade of Pale" was shot in the ruins of Witley Court in Worcestershire, England. It features four of the five musicians...
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Ash Vale railway station (redirect from Aldershot Camp railway station)
Basingstoke Canal.: Fig. 1 It is approximately half a mile from Ash Vale to North Camp station on the North Downs Line (the line between Gatwick Airport, Guildford...
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