Hi there
I’m just trying to find a little more information
about Streatlam camp.
My uncle, John Carpenter was, as I’ve been
told, an instructor at Barnard
Castle.
I also have this Christmas card and I know Smailes
was a friend of the family who lived in the same street as my mother and father - Hyde Park Street Gateshead.
I take it that they may have been in the 61st
training regiment (Hussars?)
Funnily enough, knowing none of this, I joined
the TA and trained at Catterick with the RAC becoming a driver, gunner, commander, on armoured
cars - must be something in the blood,
Yours sincerely,
Eric Carpenter.