Blackdown Camp
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1953 raoc
i done three months training in almer barracks blackdown concrete building in march 1953 i remember a sergeant swanson but not much more there was a camp picture house i remember watching james cagney in the roaring twenties we also go atrain down to london from i think it was brookwood station and spent a night in the union jack club can anyone say if deepcut barracks is on the same camp i am talking abou
Contributed by john henderson
Blackdown Camp (possibly Victoria Road)
These army quarters were demolished in the 1980s or 1990s and are in Blackdown Camp (near Deepcut and now part of Deepcut).
Contributed by Gordon Lumsden
Surrey memories
1953 raoc
i done three months training in almer barracks blackdown concrete building in march 1953 i remember a sergeant swanson but not much more there was a camp picture house i remember watching james cagney in the roaring twenties we also go atrain down to london from i think it was brookwood station and spent a night in the union jack club can anyone say if deepcut barracks is on the same camp i am talking abou
A memory of Blackdown Camp contributed by john henderson
Blackdown Camp (possibly Victoria Road)
These army quarters were demolished in the 1980s or 1990s and are in Blackdown Camp (near Deepcut and now part of Deepcut).
A memory of Blackdown Camp contributed by Gordon Lumsden
Extracts From Blackdown Camp & Surrey books
A sextet of non-commissioned officers from the 2nd Infantry Brigade adopt a casual pose for the photographer amid the gorse bushes and sparse clumps of grass outside the Sergeants Mess at this camp on the high heathland north of the Basingstoke canal.
An extract from from"Surrey Revisited Photographic Memories".
One of the huts of Blackdown Camp, with a group of soldiers and a bowler-hatted civilian. Traditionally the army had very strong links with the aristocracy and gentry, but by the early years of the 20th century the middle classes had gained a foothold.
An extract from from"Surrey Photographic Memories".
Here we see the brick-built army buildings of this military settlement in Surrey’s army quarter on the high heathlands of the north west of the county. The group posing for the picture includes three little girls, presumably soldiers’ daughters.
An extract from from"Surrey Photographic Memories".
West Surrey has been army country since 1853, when Queen Victoria reviewed her troops on Chobham Common. Blackdown Camp - now Blackdown Barracks - is at Deepcut on the high heathland north of the Basingstoke Canal. The Barracks is the headquarters of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
An extract from from"Surrey Photographic Memories".
A view of pre-First World War soldiers standing at ease on the parade ground. Perhaps they served in the Boer War; in eight years’ time these men would be at war again in the battlefields of Europe.
An extract from from"Surrey Photographic Memories".