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| | World War Two in Church Crookham. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Crookham Camp was again used as a billet for thousands of men, as were the Haig Lines, and Boyes Barracks which was built in 1939, later to become known as Queen Elizabeth Barracks, but known more affectionately as the Gurkha Barracks. |
 | | Church Crookham with it's ability to support RAF Odiham, the USAF at Blackbushe (RAF Hartfordbridge) aerodrome, the Army at Aldershot and the R.A.E at Farnborough, was strategically an important location. |
 | | The most tragic incident occurred on November 1942 at 4.25 p.m, when during an attempted Luftwuffe bombing of the Crookham Camp, a stray bomb fell on a house in Sandy Lane, killing all the 5 occupants, the Chapman family, who are now buried together, at Christ Church in Church Crookham. |
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