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Originally Posted by Mike Jackson
No idea - the only barracks in the vicinity in 1960 was Hobbs Barracks, Lingfield. Most of the hutted WW2 camps must have been demolished long before that. But if it was just HQ 1 Cdo Bde it could have been located in a requisitioned country house (the building I live in in Somerset was the HQ of a Bde in the Guards Armd Div and then Hqrs 3 US Armored Division 1943-44). Mike
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Thanks Mike,
As a Police officer I was stationed at East Grinstead nick. I have no idea where they would have been either, but back in 1988 when there was a firearms amnesty and we were called to a house on the Turners Hill road. When we arrived the guy who owned it gave us two hand guns that he had found at the back of his safe?? He said that he had no idea where they had come from, only that two commandos were billeted at his house during the war. Wouldn't you like to have known where they came from! A commando raid, trade with a mate, who knows??
Regards
Irv
