Combined Ops Training Camps at Newtown, Inveraray

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Alex Kean has pointed out this link to photographs of the Combined Ops Training camp at Inveraray. The photos have copyright restrictions so cannot be placed in our galleries but can be downloaded for personal use :

http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/search_item/index.php?service=RCAHMS&id=151681&refer=L3NlYXJjaC9pbmRleC5waHA%2FJnBfbmFtZT1Bcmd5bGwmcF90eXBlPUNPVU5UWSZjYWNoZV9uYW1lPTExMWNvdW50eWFyZ3lsbDMmcGVyX3BhZ2U9NTAmaWRbXT0zJnBfZmlsdGVyPWludmVyYXJheQ%3D%3D

You will see in the photos Loch Fyne and Inveraray Castle. You can also look at the ordinance survey map on that site for more detail. Just a reminder of what Eric Buckmaster of 2 Cdo mentioned about a photograph we had of a No.2 Training Exercise in the area:

http://www.commandoveterans.org/cdoGallery/v/units/2/Firth+of+Clyde+1942.JPG.html

You may note Eric's comment "It's not too warm up there in November".

I appreciate its a bit late, but the castle featured in Downton Abbey on ITV on Christmas Day is Inverary Castle. My father, a member of No 12 commando, did his training there around 1940/1941. Opposite the main building is a large hill with a monument on top.My father told me that they were required to run up to the monument before breakfast each day.There was an excellent commando museum in the grounds, but this has now closed.

Barry Wales

After reading this, I must confess I watched the last half of Downton Abbey - it happened to be on - in order to see the castle, thats all

A small note on the castle's website.

Inveraray becomes chief training area for the Combined Operations

http://www.inveraray-castle.com/clan-campbell-timeline.html