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Rivenhall Airfield, Essex (Station 168)
Home to the 397th BG, the “Bridge Buster’s” from April to August 1944
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Communal site. Huts on this site included the post office, tailors, barber, and shoemaker’s shops, local produce store, rations stores, and the gymnasium. |
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The base hospital and sick quarters were built in and around “Allshots Farm” on the South Eastern side of the airfield. Like a lot of the buildings that survive on the airfield, they have now been put to alternative use. The two dark coloured oval huts in the centre of the photo were part of the base sick quarters, each hut containing a 22 bed hospital ward. The white hut on the far left of the picture, now used as a repair centre for motor vehicles was formally the base mortuary. |
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This building at the rear of the communal site was the generator house. It would have contained two electrical power generators for the base. Photographs were taken during 2002. © Paul Clouting |