This page documents where the Armoured Regiments of 7th Armoured Division were located in the UK prior to embarking for the Normandy Landings

22nd Armoured Brigade

Diagram of High Ash Camp area.

Notes:

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[3] Day time offices and work area of these ranks

[4] Accommodation Camp for Brigade HQ

[5] Replaced 4th County of London Yeomanry on 1st August 1944

[6] From an article on the BBC WW2 Peoples War Website (Wartime Childhood in a Northumberland Village) the camp is described as follows:- "A guardroom and sentry box were erected on the corner of the green near the butcher's shop. Two Nissen huts built along the side nearest the school became the NAAFI and soldiers mess. In what is now Drummonds Close, the barrack huts were built, the old tithe barn became an ammunition store. A large gravel park for the army lorries was sited at the bottom of the common, and later massive concrete tank parks were located at the top".

[7] The War Diaries of 5th RTR state that they moved to Shakers Wood Camp from Freckenham Camp on 11th and 12th February 1944 and that HQ Sqn was based in Betts Covert Camp (Nr Thetford). This is actually near Ickburgh, south of Shakers Wood Camp. Freckenham Camp, is near Freckenham, Suffolk OS Map Ref TL671722, which places it just to the east of the town south of the B1102, Mildenhall Road.