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Annual Camps

East Lancashire Divisional Telegraph Company Royal Engineers

East Lancashire Divisional Signal Company Royal Engineers

Dates

Location

6 - 20 June 1908

Abergavenny

29 May - 12 June 1909

Ben Rhydding (Ilkley)

14 - 28 May 1910

West Down, Salisbury Plain

4 - 18 June 1911

Garstang

7 - 21 Sep 1912

Newmarket (in a small field opposite the Coronation Hotel)

27 Jul - 10 Aug 1913

Denton (Ilkley)

Whitsuntide fortnight 1914

Caernarvon, Wales

42nd (East Lancashire) Divisional Signals (TA)

Dates

Location

1921

Caernarvon, Wales

1922

Salisbury Plain

1923

Ramsey, Isle of Man

1924

Catterick

1925

Ripon

1926

No annual camp due to the General Strike

1927

Troutbeck

1928

Slyne, Lancashire

1929

Windmill Hill, Salisbury Plain

8 - 22 June 1930

Kinmel Park near Rhyl, North Wales

1931

Cartmel

1932

No Territorial Army annual camps due to Government cost-cutting

1933

 

1934

 

1935

Caernarvon, Wales (the last camp with horses)

1936

Kinmel Park near Rhyl, North Wales

1937

Abergavenny

1938

 

1939

 

42nd (Lancashire) Infantry Divisional Signal Regiment (TA)

42nd (Lancashire) Signal Regiment, TA

42nd (Lancashire and Cheshire) Signal Regiment, TA

Dates

Location

Whitsun (1 week) 1948

Kirkby-in-Furness near Ulverston
(approximately 80 attended)

1949

Kinmel Park near Rhyl, North Wales

1950

Castlemartin near Pembroke, South Wales

1951

Llanbedr near Harlech, Wales

1952

Tilshead - Exercise HECATE

?August? 1953

Salisbury Plain - Exercise SCAMPERDOWN

19 June - 3 Jul 1954

Kinmel Park near Rhyl, North Wales

4 - 18 June 1955

Cark Camp, Cark-in-Cartmel, Lancashire

1956

 

22 June - 6 July 1957

Castlemartin near Pembroke, South Wales

17-31 May 1958

Mobile Exercise - Manchester, Burnley, Clitheroe, Settle, Burton-in-Lonsdale, Heysham, Preston, Altcar, Holford (near Knutsford)

29 August - 12 September 1959

Mobile Exercise - northern England

1960

 

1961

Castlemartin near Pembroke, South Wales

1962

Crowborough, Sussex

1963

Crowborough, Sussex

1964

Burniston Barracks, Scarborough, Yorkshire

1965

Crowborough, Sussex

21 May - 4 June 1966

Blandford, Dorset

42nd Signal Squadron (Volunteers)

Dates

Location

17 June - 1 July 1967

Crowborough, Sussex

1968

Germany (RAF Geilenkirchen)

1969

Burniston Barracks, Scarborough, Yorkshire

1970

Belgium & Germany (Base Camp at Kaullile, South of Eindhoven)

1971

Burniston Barracks, Scarborough, Yorkshire

17 June - 1 July 1972

Belgium & Germany (Base Camp at Olen, Belgium)

2 - 16 June 1973

Burniston Barracks, Scarborough, Yorkshire

8 - 22 June 1974

Belgium & Germany (Exercise CALM FENCE 74 - Base Camp at Grobbendonk near Olen, Belgium)

7 - 21 June 1975

Burniston Barracks, Scarborough, Yorkshire

12 - 26 June 1976

Belgium & Germany (Exercise CALM FENCE 76 - Base Camp at Olen, Belgium)

21 May - 4 June 1977

Burniston Barracks, Scarborough, Yorkshire

17 June - 1 July 1978

Belgium & Germany (Base Camp at Olen, Belgium)

2 - 16 June 1979

Penhale, Cornwall

14 - 28 June 1980

Belgium & Germany (Base Camp at Olen, Belgium)

30 May - 13 June 1981

Burniston Barracks, Scarborough, Yorkshire

5 - 19 June 1982

Germany (Base Camp at Rheindahlen)

28 May - 11 June 1983

Burniston Barracks, Scarborough, Yorkshire

16 - 30 June 1984

?Germany? (Base Camp at Arsbeck)

11 - 25 May 1985

Burniston Barracks, Scarborough, Yorkshire

14 - 28 June 1986

Belgium & Germany (Base Camp at Olen, Belgium)

6 - 20 June 1987

Burniston Barracks, Scarborough, Yorkshire

11 - 25 June 1988

Belgium & Germany (Base Camp at Olen, Belgium)

3 - 17 June 1989

Burniston Barracks, Scarborough, Yorkshire

9 - 23 June 1990

Belgium & Germany (Base Camp at Olen, Belgium)

8 - 22 June 1991

Burniston Barracks, Scarborough, Yorkshire

6 - 20 June 1992

Belgium & Germany (Base Camp at Olen, Belgium)

25 September - 9 October 1993

Scotland (Base Camp at West Freugh near Stranraer)

10 - 24 September 1994

Germany (Base Camp at Gütersloh)

17 June - 1 July 1995

Germany (Base Camp at Bracht)

8 - 22 June 1996

Wathgill Camp, Catterick, North Yorkshire

14 - 28 June 1997

Germany (Exercise ABLE CONDOR 97 - Base Camp at Rheindahlen)

13 - 27 June 1998

Germany (Exercise ABLE CONDOR 98 - Nord Rhein-Westfalen area)

1999

Northern England

2000

Germany
 

Still Recruiting...

42 Signal Squadron is still recruiting spare-time soldiers to train on Tuesday evenings,  weekends, plus a 2-week exercise each year, often abroad. 
Applicants should be medically and physically fit, and aged 17 - 32 (can be older with previous military experience).
For more details, ring 0161 257 3377 during office hours Monday - Friday.