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Photograph of Pte Brenda Reason (now Cpl), of the Women’s Royal Army Corps (Territorial Army) (WRAC (TA)), sitting on her bed in Hut 4 on Penhale Military Camp in Cornwall, 1963. 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. Penhale Sands is a complex of sand dunes on the north Cornwall coast. Penhale Camp was established in 1939 to the north of the dunes as a World War Two emergency measure to train anti-aircraft gunners. In 1943 the cam was occupied by the United States Army Corps of Engineers as part of the build up to Operation Overlord, the D-Day landings. The engineers built the fourteen Nissan huts on the Camp, which are still used today as accommodation for training units. In April 2010, the Camp was closed by the MOD, however Penhale Camp and its associated training area are still available to all Arms and Services wishing to carry out low level infantry skills training, cadre courses, communications and CPX training.