HMS Standard (shore establishment)
Name | HMS Standard |
Acquired | 1941 |
Commissioned | 15 January 1942[1] |
Decommissioned | 13 July 1945[1] |
Type | Shore establishment |
HMS Standard was a British
Origins
Prior to the
Personnel
Men posted to the base fell into three categories; those with low morale, men of temperamental instability, and malingerers.[3] The aim was to return these men not necessarily to active service but to some form of effective service.[3]
The base was not a hospital, it was under the command of officers of the Royal Navy executive branch rather than
Regime
The regime of the base had an emphasis on physical labour and education to support the overall aim of returning the men to effective service. Rather than a general regime, each man was assessed and a personalised regime of work, recreation and education established.[3]
Statistics
During the three years HMS Standard was operational, 842 men were assessed of whom 680 were classed as 'successes' because they were drafted to other duties within the Navy with the average period at Standard being four months. Of those redrafted the records are incomplete but some performed well enough to be decorated, while over 100 were the subject later in their service careers of bad reports. The remaining 162 men were all discharged from the Navy.[3]
Closure
HMS Standard was decommissioned in July 1945 after the end of the war in Europe, subsequently the camp became a labour camp for Polish refugees before becoming a Forestry Commission depot. The site of the camp was flooded with the creation of Kielder Water in 1980.[5]
Notes
- ^ ISBN 978-0-907771-73-9.
- ISBN 978-0-900960-48-2.
- ^ ISSN 1758-3209. Retrieved 28 July 2010.
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- ^ "Royal Naval Camp (Kielder)". Keys to the Past. Durham County Council, Northumberland County Council. 2010. Archived from the original on 16 June 2011. Retrieved 17 October 2010.
References
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