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Camps (Selection of Sites).

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — British Army. – in the House of Commons at on 8 April 1941.

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Photo of Sir Waldron Smithers Sir Waldron Smithers , Chislehurst

asked the Secretary of State for War who settled the site for the camp of which he has been told; what was the extra cost involved in excavating to obtain level sites for buildings, and for the parade grounds, respectively; and why was not a site selected which would have obviated this expensive excavation?

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