June 2015 - The Sutton Badges

Commemorating the First World War in Sutton Mandeville

A line from Sutton Mandeville

This postcard is titled ‘A Line From the Front’ but it is actually postmarked from Sutton Mandeville Camp. The date

This postcard is postmarked Sutton Mandeville Camp with a date that looks like 12 JY 16, or 12th July 1916.

This programme offers a glimpse of Sutton Mandeville’s soldiers when off duty, but it also provides us with a list of

After the war the camps were dismantled and returned to farming. Some of the huts were sold off and used