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Photograph of three members of the Women’s Royal Army Corps (Territorial Army) (WRAC (TA)) sitting on a iron framed bed in a hut at Annual Camp at Plasterdown, 13 Jul 1962. Pte Aileen Horner is in the middle. From one of four photograph albums which belonged to Pte Brenda Reason (W/404306), No 3 Squadron, 49th Signal Regiment, Women’s Royal Army Corps Territorial Army, covering the period 1959-1969. Shortly after World War Two, a new hutted camp was built at Plasterdown. It was later used as a hospital by the American Forces. As a result of the 1973 Defence Land’s Review by Lord Nugent, the War Department’s land holdings were reduced. As part of this reduction in military requirements, the camp at Plasterdown was demolished and the site restored to moorland.