« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 26 October 04 20:11 BST (UK) »
Hello Kargil,
I am very sorry that I can not give you any direct advice because I have not been able to find much either.
The is a book however which may be of interest to you.
"Plain Soldiering"
N.D.G. James
Hobnob Press, Salisbury
73 Photographs
Published 1987
ISBN 0 946418 03 9
To quote
From the initial purchase of thousands of acres of chalk farmland and sheep-pasture, this book is concerned with the prodigious energy expended in building up the military establishment on the Plain – the building and rebuilding of roads, railways, barracks, gunnery ranges, accommodation, hospitals and leisure facilities. The book is equally concerned with the soldiers – transients all and upward of a million of them – for whom the Plain was a staging post before departing for whatever destiny had in store. Every conceivable source has been consulted in researching this book. The minutes of Government committees, barrack-books, newspapers, the memoirs of soldiers and residents have all been carefully sifted for relevant information. The role, which the area has played in aeronautical development, is recounted at some length. This book without a doubt is the bible of military history on Salisbury Plain.
The only other Barracks I found was the former Unitarian Chapel which was being used by the Salvation Army from 1899 to the Second World War.
Best of Luck
Sarah
Robinson, Roberts, Roles, Griffiths, Walton, Royle, Chorlton,
Mott, Jones, Greenway, Morris, Bates, Mackay, Colley, Wagstaffe, Rickwood, Winston, Sockett, Bates, Haylock, Winston, Cleminson, Goodwin, Sockett, Bevan, Williams, Bell, Johnson and Dearson.
