Bushfield Camp, in 1980, shortly after the Army moved out. Photo: Hampshire Library Service
SIR: Once a rifleman...
(Bushfield Camp forty years on: still brownfield? Chronicle, February 18) revived mixed memories of long ago. I was there for three months basic training with 1st Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps in 1949 before moving on to the RAEC in Bodmin for National Service.
The worst was the three days 'jankers' for dropping my 'best friend' the Lee Enfield rifle on the square! Better was the many rounds fired on the Chilcomb range, training to be a marksman!
The accommodation at Bushfield was wooden wartime hits (spiders) self-contained except for a cookhouse, and luxurious compared with some I later saw.
...always a rifleman.
Francis Hitchings,
Wincheser Road,
Micheldever
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