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        Bury St Edmunds Camp

        Home front activity, this time at a Bury St Edmunds Territorial Army training camp; footage captured in 1937.

        Sponsored film 1937 7 mins Silent

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        Overview

        When war was declared only two years after this film was shot the overall size of the Territorial Army had doubled; Bury St. Edmunds and West Suffolk established a record for Territorial recruitment in England by raising 2,060 men in two months by the end of 1939. Believed to be footage captured during a Territorial Army Camp in Bury St Edmunds in 1937, here we see the volunteer soldiers in training, then also enjoying a well-earned pint and down-time back at the campsite.