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Title: Kingsfold Camp, Billingshurst 1945
Post by: cotdeps on Thursday 04 August 05 20:09 BST (UK)

I would greatly appreciate any information on the above location.
I have a Driver Daniel Joseph Richards T4867681 to research.
Thanks in advance.
Cotdeps

Title: Re: KINGSFOLD CAMP BILLINGSHURST 1945
Post by: liverpool annie on Saturday 06 August 05 05:40 BST (UK)

Hi Cotdeps !

I can't give you any information about Daniel - but maybe these sites will give ideas of how to research  him

http://www.islandfarm.fsnet.co.uk/LIST%20OF%20UK%20POW%20CAMPS1.htm

http://www.wartimememories.co.uk/pow/pow.html

http://www.fortunecity.com/campus/dixie/921/PoWs/pows.htm

Annie

Title: Re: KINGSFOLD CAMP BILLINGSHURST 1945
Post by: cotdeps on Monday 08 August 05 19:18 BST (UK)

Thanks, much appreciated.
Cotdeps

Title: Re: KINGSFOLD CAMP BILLINGSHURST 1945
Post by: milliebongo on Tuesday 08 May 07 13:58 BST (UK)

If theres anything in particular your looking for let me know i shall have a hunt i lived in billingshurst for 25 years and now live 10 minutes up the road so anything i can do let me know. :)

Title: Re: KINGSFOLD CAMP BILLINGSHURST 1945
Post by: cotdeps on Wednesday 09 May 07 19:36 BST (UK)

Thanks for replying.
I have my application in to the Army for information about Dates etc.
Anything you have or can find about the POW camp would be greatfully appreciated.

Thanks again.

Title: Re: Kingsfold Camp, Billingshurst 1945
Post by: Hussar on Wednesday 04 July 07 07:37 BST (UK)

Hi,
there is a village called Kingsfold but, its not near Billingshurst. Take the Dorking Road from Horsham and its the second village you come to on the A24.
regards,
Hussar

Title: Re: Kingsfold Camp, Billingshurst 1945
Post by: cotdeps on Wednesday 04 July 07 16:37 BST (UK)

Thanks for your info.
Appreciate your time.
Hussar?   Are you ex army by any chance?
Regards
Cotdeps

Title: Re: Kingsfold Camp, Billingshurst 1945
Post by: Hussar on Wednesday 04 July 07 20:34 BST (UK)

Hi,
yes ex-Army. Was in 11th Hussars(PAO) and then Queens Royal Regt.
Regards,
Hussar

Title: Re: Kingsfold Camp, Billingshurst 1945
Post by: Elisa123 on Wednesday 14 August 19 23:42 BST (UK)

My grandfather was a prisoner in this camp. I would like to know if there is something left of this camp. All i know is that in the 70's there was a farm with horses, and that in this farm an italian prisoner had drawn a Venice landscape.

Title: Re: Kingsfold Camp, Billingshurst 1945
Post by: solidrock on Thursday 15 August 19 03:33 BST (UK)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMD9_sr47lY

Title: Re: Kingsfold Camp, Billingshurst 1945
Post by: Elisa123 on Thursday 15 August 19 09:59 BST (UK)

It looks like there's nothing left about the camp... the video author talks about terrible conditions pf the prisoners, but that's not true: my grandfather always remembered that he never felt hungry and he normally worked as a farmer which actually was his jobin italy. He was much helthier there than his brothers in italy during the war.

I'm looking for the house in the atached picture, where my grandpa used to work

Title: Re: Kingsfold Camp, Billingshurst 1945
Post by: pete mackean on Sunday 14 June 20 22:30 BST (UK)

sorry chaps have to have a giggle to myself
some mis-information here

some of you chaps looking for a POW camp NEAR Billingshurst
the camp was numbered as all were,

No 46, Kingsfold Camp
was on Marringdean Road running south east and south out of Billingshurst West Sussex
i think whats left of the camp is just west of the road at junction with Adversane Lane

pete

Title: Re: Kingsfold Camp, Billingshurst 1945
Post by: Bill Parkes on Friday 08 March 24 13:35 GMT (UK)

The Italian POW camp in Billingshurst was in Marringdean Road. It backed onto a field owned by my wife's family.
The camp no longer exists, it was built upon and is now Kingswood Close.
Hope this helps.