I ENJOYED your interesting article about Catterick Camp (Echo Memories, July 7).
Following initial training at Canterbury, my friends and I arrived there two weeks before Christmas 1946.
Our 16-week course in 2 Training Regiment started with the most horrendous winter for decades.
Throughout the camp water pipes were frozen solid and the windows of our hut had glass panes missing. Upon retiring to our double bunks we would put on our berets and cover ourselves with our greatcoats.
My wife and I have been back to Catterick twice trying to find where Le Cateau Lines were, but were unsuccessful.
We also looked for Sandy’s Home where my pals and I would buy a cup of tea and then take off our boots and put our wet socks on the radiator to dry.
No happy memories of Catterick, I’m afraid – just relief when in May, 1947, I left for 15th (later 11th) Air Formation Signals Regiment in Germany.
Alan Smith, Whickham, Gateshead.
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