Military camp or prison? Shorncliffe camp

[casalguidi]

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Shorecliffe as he pronounced it
It's definitely pronounced with the "N" helen!

Best wishes

Casalguidi

[goggy]

hlbrad,
would your brother be eligible for the Suez medal?
                     Cheers,Goggy
                           SCZV.

[goggy]

Passion Play,
off topic!Ref;the ref to Zeppelin+Cork.Could you explain that please,part of my familt tale contains a ref to Zepps;overhead,but location isnt clear.I have looked, but not found an Irish report.
                Interested,Goggy.

[PassionPlay]

Hi goggy,

Sorry but you have completely lost me there - unless you have misread my avatar?  It says www.led-by-zeppelin.co.uk and is the site of a Led Zeppelin tribute band so has nothing to do with airships or Ireland 

Sorry I cannot be of help.

Cheers, Stephanie

[hlbradd]

would your brother be eligible for the Suez medal?
                                           

Hi Goggy

No idea !  I assume not - I'm sure he would have mentioned it otherwise.  Although who is this brother of mine  Is it something else he should have mentioned 

Coincidentally,  I have photo of Dad and his cousin playing on top of the air-raid shelter (where they used to grow tomatoes) with what looks like a barrage balloon in the background - fraid this was Hackney tho'...

Helen

[goggy]

PASSION PLAY,
sorry,did i get it wrong,again,?Idont think of age,mention of Egypt rolled the years back!
Anyone that was there 1952-56 is eligible for a Gong.
Funny you should mention the air raid shelter garden,and barrage balloons,that takes me even further back!!
                   Cheers, Goggy

[mwelsh50]

My Great Grandfather was based at Shorncliffe shortly before shipping off to India with the dragoon guards. So I think it was a camp used for regiments coming in and out of the country.

It was originally establised to hold forces protecting the south coast from a French invasion during the Napoleonic Wars.

[gazza]

I've noticed when going through the 1901 census pages for the camp that the birthplaces are similar for large groups of names. For example there are loads together born in Ireland. This must  have been an Irish regiment  I would think. Another load born in London & so on.......

[Rockbourne38]

Hi to all

There was a Military Hospital at Shorncliffe in WW2, as my great uncle, who had served in the Boer War and WW1 and was a medical doctor, was the CO of that hospital from the outbreak of war in 1939 till the end of the war, he was 58 in 39 and came out of retirement when the war broke out, and was given that job after 28 years as an army doctor till his earlier retirement a few years before the war started.

How about it being a hospital camp? Could be the wounded from the Boer war.

Pauline