INFORMATION:

Piddlehinton camp I believe was here before WW2. It was a training camp for the Dorset Regiment.

Several units passed through as the war progressed until D-day it was then used by US forces as camp D6 a holding and transit camp for departing soldiers for Omaha & Utah Beach.

It finished up as a National Service camp to train all though's unlucky 18 year olds in the 1950's and 60's.