Can you identify any of the faces in this photo taken in the Camp c. 1942? Second from the left in the back row is Albert George Watts. Thanks to his daughter Jean Williams for the photograph.

Bramley Camp railway

The Second World War Air Defences of Bramley Camp

The Camp was protected by a number of anti-aircraft batteries during the Second World War. There was also a bombing decoy site. The approximate locations were:

Battery 1 - Stratfield Turgis

Battery 2 - Hale Farm, Old Basing

Battery 3 - Pollard's End Copse, Sherborne St. John

Battery 4 - Lillymill Farm, Bramley

Battery 5 - Woodman's Cottage, Three Ashes

Battery 6 - Collett's Copse, Sherborne St. John

Battery 7 - Sherfield Hill

Bombing decoy site at Monk Sherborne. This was a 'QF' bombing decoy, which consisted of a series of controlled fires lit during an air raid to replicate a target struck by bombs. No features remain.

Information taken from the National Monuments Record.  For more information visit the website www.pastscape.org.uk