Cultybraggan prisoner of war camp
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- Situated in rural Perthshire, Cultybraggan Camp can be found nestling beneath the rugged Aberuchill Hills and alongside the Water of Ruchill. It is Scotland's last remaining prisoner of war camp.
It was constructed during the Second World War to house up to 4000 prisoners, first Italian and then German PoWs. Named PoW Camp 21, it had a notoriously hard reputation, housing dozens of SS officers, members of the Wehrmacht, Luftwaffe & Marine Corps among others.
In 1948, it became a Ministry of Defence training camp. Thousands of personnel in the regular, territorial and cadet forces passed through its doors until its closure in 2004.
The camp with its 80+ Nissen huts and the hillground to the south was purchased from the Ministry of Defence by the village of Comrie.
The camp is now a thriving multi-use community resource run by Comrie Development Trust.
Stayed here a few times with the Air Cadets in the mid 90s, great memories and glad it's still standing. Thanks for the video!
My pleasure. A very interesting place that I wasn't aware of until around 2 years ago.
Spent some great times there when I was in the Army Cadets as a youngster. That was our summer holiday back then, back in the sixties.😊
Went there in 1978 as an army cadet. The assault course, which I was looking forward too, was just a ditch to jump and a wall to climb over, the instructors said someone always falls in the ditch which seemed strange because you could easily jump the widest part. We all done the course and no one fell in the ditch. Cadet Newton said to the instructors “ha ha, no one fell in” and they grabbed him and flung him in the ditch.
I stayed there in the early 1990s with the Army Cadet Force.
A German POW died a few years back and left approximately 300k to the senior inhabitants of Comrie ( village next to camp)
He had been treated so very well by the villagers and turned away from Fascism.
So glad this site was and continues to be preserved. A glimpse of Scottish history some might not know about or even expect.
What an interesting place that i didnt know existed. Thanks for your excellent video showing this important historical place. 😊👍
My pleasure.
Thx for sharing
My pleasure.
Cultybraggan is an amazing site and I'm so glad it was saved, especially with all it's history. Great footage as always.
Is this place open to the public? I've never even heard of it until now ..I would love to see this in person
@davidmacmillan7322 yes, you can wander round as there are various businesses there. There's also a hut with the history of the camp.
Thank you.
@@scotlandshistory thank you so much.
Spent a weekend there in December 1967 on detachment from RAF Tangmere when part of 38 Group Support Unit (LRCF). Bitterly cold Nissen huts. I do remember visiting Comrie where the chip shop had a coal-fired range
My grandfather was a German pow here, he stayed in Scotland working on a farm, got married and had 4 children. My dad being his youngest child. I have his german surname.
Brilliant story and really good that places like this have survived the decades inbetween.
Hi. I’m the Chairman of the board of CDT who look after Cultybraggan on behalf of the community. We would like to use drone footage for promotion and a crowdfunding campaign. Could we discuss this with you? I couldn’t find an email address for you. Thanks. Mark Temple.