Clipstone Camp (England)
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- e-uk-en
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- Great Britain
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- found: Clipstone Camp and the Mansfield area in World War One, 2013:preface (soldiers moved into the area to live and train at Clipstone Camp; the hutted camp was just one of the camps especially erected to accommodate men of the new armies raised by Lord Kitchener)
- found: Wikipedia, viewed 26 June 2018Clipstone (located on what was to become Clipstone Colliery, Clipstone Camp was established when work on developing the mine, started in 1912, was abandoned following the outbreak of the First World War; the Duke of Portland offered the land for use as a military training camp, which was eventually opened in 1915; at its height the camp could accommodate 30,000 soldiers)
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- 2018-06-26: new
- 2018-07-19: revised
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