However, more recent research suggests that between 1939 and 1943
Ashchurch Camp was known not only as ‘G-25’ but was also the home of a
number of special British War Office Units, which had no connection with
vehicles.
No members of these three units have been interviewed, but it is believed
that the units were working on advanced communications systems for the R.A.F.
from the time of the erection of the camp in 1938.
When the camp was handed over to the Americans, two of the three units moved
to Fife in Scotland. It is thought, therefore, that the camp was a
‘location of expertise
in research ii, communications’. The full significance of
Ashchurch Camp will become known only when a book now in preparation, by
John A Spiller
is
published.’
(It
has never been published regrettably.)
One survivor from the period has claimed that many of the British officers at Ashchurch in 1942 became P.O.W.s in Singapore, where a considerable number died. Another has claimed that “there were between 2,000 and 2,500 of us at Ashchurch. soldiers and A.T.S.”
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