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I remember being at Plasterdown Camp and Tavistock I loved the rural setting with Dartmouth on our doorstep. If you wanted to go into town then it was a trip to Plymouth I had a lot of good nights there ...Read more

A memory of Tavistock by davidpryor18

I was about 5 when we moved here approximately 1943 from Perham Down. I went to the Garrison School in the Tidworth Barracks, with the American PX behind us. They chucked us kids sweets etc. - a luxury with sweets on the ration. ...Read more

A memory of North Tidworth

I lived in Salisbury Avenue and once at St John's Green Junior School this was my route home. Playing on the walls of the assault course, amongst other escapades. Unfortunately, when I was back there in 2012 it was a building site. ...Read more

A memory of Colchester in 1952 by David Adams

We moved to Roe Green Village in 1940 having been bombed out in the East End. My father was stationed at Mill Hill Barracks following his return from France. He found us a place to live in Goldsmith Lane, Kingsbury. We spent the rest ...Read more

A memory of Kingsbury in 1940

My earliest memories are of the married quarters, well into the interior of the barracks of the Dorset Regiment. My father had escaped the poverty of the East End of London in 1923. By 1937 he was a ...Read more

A memory of Dorchester in 1930 by Peter Giles

My parents moved to the village of Golden Green in about 1956, , to run the village shop and post office. At first I was sent to Sussex Road school, but soon moved me as one of the first intake to the New Hugh ...Read more

A memory of Tonbridge by jean.ralph25

Army child and went to eight different schools 1936-1946. There was an all boys school called St Johns at Weymouth. On one of my return trips to my native county from Canada, I was perturbed to see it had been pulled down . I ...Read more

A memory of Weymouth by Peter Giles

My father was a military policeman and we lived at no 17 MSQ (just around the corner from these houses and now known as Wellington Terrace.) At the front of our house there were woods across the road and a small ...Read more

A memory of Knaphill in 1949 by Sandra Evans

This was of course taken long before Burnt House Cottage was built.  This was where my grandmother Ruth Hare lived.  The cottage is now to the right of the road.  In the background are accommodation blocks at Carver Barracks ...Read more

A memory of Wimbish in 1980 by Andrew Wright

I had never even heard of Huyton, much less been there until I joined the Territorial Army in 1967. I had enlisted at a recruiting office in Manchester and attended the Alamein Barracks for my basic training in 1967. In ...Read more

A memory of Huyton in 1967 by John Howard Norfolk