Tilstock Airfield

Tilstock Airfield is an airfield located in Shropshire, England. Located close north of the village of Prees, it is 2mi east of the village of Tilstock, and 3mi south of Whitchurch. Prees Heath Army CampOpened in 1915 as a training base for the British Army, it had a capacity for 30, 000 men for training in trench warfare. It additionally acted later as a store for supplies, with its own railway depot fed by a 1mi branch line from the LNWR's Crewe and Shrewsbury Railway. As casualties mounted, it became a hospital with a fully fledged barracks. The scale and size of the camp brought about the appointment of the first female police officers in the Shropshire Constabulary, to manage and restrain local women from heading to the camp. After the war ended, the facilities were downgraded, with the British Government keeping ownership of the site for Army training purposes. Prees Heath internment campAt the outbreak of World War II in 1939, the site became an internment camp for screening Austrian and German refugees, with capacity added for holding 2, 000 men by the erection of a large tented village. Later converted to a prisoner of war camp, it closed 4 Oct 1941.

Tilstock Airfield is an airfield located in Shropshire, England. Located close north of the village of Prees, it is 2mi east of the village of Tilstock, and 3mi south of Whitchurch. Prees Heath Army CampOpened in 1915 as a training base for the British Army, it had a capacity for 30, 000 men for training in trench warfare. It additionally acted later as a store for supplies, with its own railway depot fed by a 1mi branch line from the LNWR's Crewe and Shrewsbury Railway. As casualties mounted, it became a hospital with a fully fledged barracks. The scale and size of the camp brought about the appointment of the first female police officers in the Shropshire Constabulary, to manage and restrain local women from heading to the camp. After the war ended, the facilities were downgraded, with the British Government keeping ownership of the site for Army training purposes. Prees Heath internment campAt the outbreak of World War II in 1939, the site became an internment camp for screening Austrian and German refugees, with capacity added for holding 2, 000 men by the erection of a large tented village. Later converted to a prisoner of war camp, it closed 4 Oct 1941.