MEMORIAL VILLAGE TO COMMEMORATE EL ALAMEIN BATTLE
LONDON, October 23.
On the anniversary of the battle of | El Alamein, which falls today,, thei Princess Royal will open two new cottages in the memorial village of Enham-Alamein, near Andover Junction , in Hampshire, where a model settlement has been established as a memorial to the veterans of the two world wars The'Enham village centre for veterans was first established in 1919 as the result of a campaign led by Earl Haig. Towards the end of the recent war it was decided to add to it by employing a fund of £lOO,OOO collected by Egyptian friends of Britain
to commemorate the victory of El Alamein. The centre includes aj number of well-equipped workshops, and small factories, from which the villagers during the Second World War produced 12,000 Nissen huts, 5000 barrage balloons, 150,000 Army beds, and thousands of ammunition boxes and gas masks. In 1943 alone the total output of these workshops was worth more than £250,000. The villagers are now building ‘caravans, utility furniture, and radios.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 24 October 1947, Page 7
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