Arromanches Camp
Arromanches Camp is located at Instow 3 miles (4.8 km) as the crow flies from Chivenor across the River Taw. Although 11 Amphibious Test and Trials Squadron based at this camp is part of 1 Assault Group Royal Marines from Poole it is an administered by the RMB Chivenor Base Support Regiment that provides messing and support facilities from Chivenor.
The name of the camp comes from the name of the town on Gold Beach of the Normandy landing from the Second World War. The village of Instow is twinned with Arromanches.
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“Among the interesting thing in camp are the boys. You recollect the boy in Captain McIlrath’s company; we have another like unto him in Captain Woodward’s. He ran away from Norwalk to Camp Dennison; went into the Fifth, then into the Guthries, and as we passed their camp, he was pleased with us, and now is “a boy of the Twenty-third.” He drills, plays officer, soldier, or errand boy, and is a curiosity in camp.”
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