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Britons Camp

St Albans, World War One

Postcard sent by John (?02614 2/2nd ??? RAMC, Britons Camp, St Albans, Herts) on 15th August 1915 to Mrs W H Payne, Heathfield, Ramsden, Billericay, Essex

Dear Mother.  I'm sending you a photo we had taken in front of our tent the other day. The other chaps are the others in our tent. Sid has gone into another tent now with the other officer servants and we have a lance corporal instead. Will write a letter in a dy or two. With love to all from John.

Photographer L L Christmas, 23 Catherine Street, St Albans

In August 1914 the 2nd London Division moved to their war station in the St Albans area (see The London Gunners come to Town), and army camps were set up over a large area of West Hertfordshire. These continued through much of the First World War, and one of these camps was known as Britons Camp.

A group of six postcards said to be of the 2/4 Leicesters

I do not know where Britons Camp was within the St Albans Area Can you help?

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