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Clipstone Camp

Courtesy of Ian Brown LRPS

Clipstone Camp
Clipstone
England

A massive army camp of wooden huts was built at Clipstone near Mansfield in WW1. Men of the UPS (University and Public Schools Brigade) were the first to arrive in May 1915. The camp was just one of those built to train the men of Kitchener's New Army. Clipstone Camp could hold upwards of 30,000 men. Over the next four years, men of many regiments came to the area. The once peaceful countryside was alive with soldiers digging trenches, practising on rifle ranges and stirring up the dust on country lanes as they went on training marches. Towards the end of the war WAACS were stationed at Clipstone Camp and in its final years it was used as a demobilisation camp. Many of the huts were then sold, and used as village halls, and for other purposes. Mr Ian Brown LRPS did this copy of an old photograph (the original photographer is unknown)

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