On 28 Apr 2003, at 16:51, msnowdon.freeserve.co.uk wrote: > Colleen Andrews recently asked about Military camps near Swindon. I > lived in the area in the 1930's and the camp at Chisledon comes to > mind. It must have been there in WW1 days. There used also to be > something at Wroughton but that might have been RAF. The Wroughton camp was certainly RAF in and after WW2, but this hardly seems likely in WW1. Whether there was a camp there at all at that time I don't know. Jim Fisher in Luton, Beds., UK. http://www.jimella.nildram.co.uk/geneal.htm - Fam hist pages I use CDs produced by Archive CD Books to assist fellow researchers http://www.archivecdbooks.org
Obviously, since the RAF was only formed on 1 April 1918, RAF Wroughton did not exist in WW1. I served there in the early 1960s when it housed, as it had done since WW2 days, 15 Maintenance Unit - at that time servicing Canberra aircraft. Since the very much larger RAF Lyneham was only opened in 1936, I am sure that RAF Wroughton is no older than that and certainly there was no military camp there earlier. As opposed to RAF Wroughton, RAF Hospital Wroughton was built between 1939 and 1942. Cheers Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "E.J. (Jim) Fisher" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 8:13 PM Subject: Re: [WSX] Military Camps > On 28 Apr 2003, at 16:51, msnowdon.freeserve.co.uk wrote: > > > Colleen Andrews recently asked about Military camps near Swindon. I > > lived in the area in the 1930's and the camp at Chisledon comes to > > mind. It must have been there in WW1 days. There used also to be > > something at Wroughton but that might have been RAF. > > The Wroughton camp was certainly RAF in and after WW2, but > this hardly seems likely in WW1. Whether there was a camp there > at all at that time I don't know. > > > Jim Fisher in Luton, Beds., UK. > http://www.jimella.nildram.co.uk/geneal.htm - Fam hist pages > > I use CDs produced by Archive CD Books to assist fellow researchers > http://www.archivecdbooks.org > > > ==== WESSEX-PLUS Mailing List ==== > To find a UK mailing lists - try John Fuller's page at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/gen_mail_country-unk.html > John also includes some useful non-Rootsweb Lists eg Moonrakers etc > >