Potters Hill
Military site
Revised: 1948
Published: 1949.
O.S. mapping.
Object Number - UPL 16979 - Reproduced by kind permission of Ordnance Survey, 6 inch series, Yorkshire CCLXXXII.SE (includes: Ecclesfield; Tankersley; Wentworth; Wortley.) ...
Possible location - in the Potter Hill area of High Green to the north of Sheffield.
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Detailed History
Map from the HQ of the Chief Engineer, Supply, Evacuation and Maintenance Installations for the USA Air Force in the UK, dated 1st July '44, identifies Potters Hill, Yorkshire, under the sub-heading 'Replacement Centre'. Under the main heading 'Evacuation Centres', Ninth Air Force.
The Ecclesfield School Virtual Community website contains the 'Ecclesfield Memoirs' of local resident Catherine Chalmers who mentions the Americans being stationed in what had previously been a British Army Camp.
http://www.esvc.freeserve.co.uk/cathreed.htm
The camp layout can be found on the 1948 revision, 1951 (pub), O.S. sheet SK39 at grid ref 335(0)970(0).
Memoirs of local resident Catherine Chalmers (later Reed?) record that the camp was initially constructed for the British Army and only later was handed over to the Americans. Following their departure the site became a POW Camp.
US Army Post Office identifies Potters Hill as 'Army Post Office 591'. This identity followed the RCD down to Bishopstrow, Wiltshire on the troops removal from Potters Hill.
Revisions
Ecclesfield School Virtual Community - Ecclesfield Memoirs of Catherine Reed.
US Office of Chief Engineer map, 1st July, 1944.
US Office of Chief Engineer map of Army Post Offices 1st March 1944.
Barry Anderson, Army Air Forces Stations (Alabama, 1985) / http://www.airfieldinformationexchange.org/community/archive/index.php/…
