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The Leicestershire & Derbyshire (Prince Albert's Own) Yeomanry.
Colonel Lord Brassey inspecting the guard - Blackfell Camp (1966)
Blackfell Army Camp.
[ Top of Village Lane ]
Aerial Photograph - 1964
[ Thanks to Washington History Society ]
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High Washington Farm & Blackfell Army Camp
Looking South from above Village Lane, close to the Camp Entrance
[ Thanks to Adrian Lupton ]
Officers at Blackfell Camp, Co. Durham
( 1966 )
Regimental Band at Blackfell Camp
( 1966 )
Washington Home Guard
Soldiers photographed in the street behind Susan Peareth's School & Blue Bell Inn - High Usworth
Back Row 5: 'Private' Chicken, BR8: 'Chippie' Nesbitt, BR9: Jack Wilkinson.
Middle Row 1: Charlie MacInroy, MR2: Abe Shipham, MR4: Norman Watson, MR5: Billy Lewins, MR7: Harry Marriner.
Front Row 4: Mervyn Gardiner, FR5: Fred Price, FR6: Bob Hardy.
The Leicestershire and Derbyshire (PAO) Yeomanry is a squadron of The Royal Yeomanry, a Light Cavalry Regiment of the Army Reserve.
( Thanks to www.paoyeomanry.co.uk for making the 1966 images available. )