More storiesExtracts from a book compiled in 1994 by John Owen Smith from conversations and correspondence with... It would appear to have been the Churchills of this British regiment which Jim Clark and others saw being... Church Gate Stores in the High Street was used as a squadron orderly building, and Canadian troops there... It wasn't just the troops based in Headley”, said Pat Lewis, “we had the Canadian Army... Those on Ludshott Common tended to go to Grayshott and Haslemere – Pat Lewis, who was in Nissen huts... Thus we read that Canadian soldiers were involved in a number of vehicle accidents: such as the Bombardier... Betty Parker remembers Canadians from Bordon sheltering in Headley too: “They slept in the woods by... Whereas the Calgarys arrived with British ‘Matilda’ and then ‘Churchill’ tanks, all... In early 1943, Pat Lewis remembers sharing the few Ram tanks the Sherbrookes had between their four... There were four Canadian camps locally each named after one of the Canadian Great Lakes: Huron and Ontario... The immediate effect of this, as far as the village was concerned, was to bring the Garrys back for their... They may or may not have buried motorbikes in Erie Camp; from recent stories in the local press, they do... < Previous page | You are on page 1 of 1 | Next page >   | 1 |   | 
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