Netheravon Airfield

[2] The Ministry of Defence land which surrounds the site is part of the Salisbury Plain Training Area.

[5] In June 1914, under the leadership of Lt Col (later Air Vice Marshal) F H Sykes, the airfield was the site of a gathering of RFC men and machines.

Known as the Netheravon Concentration Camp, the exercise was designed to test mobilisation and improve the RFC's public reputation, as well as providing training.

[7] Flight magazine reported "upwards of 700 officers and men" and published photographs showing lines of tents for the visiting squadrons.

[8] In August, following the declaration of war, 3 and 4 squadrons left for France to support the British Expeditionary Force.

1 Flying Training School; between 1924 and 1928, trainees included crews for the newly created Fleet Air Arm.

Additional married quarters were built at Airfield Camp in the 1950s, and c. 1952 a Roman Catholic church was opened there.

[5] For some years until 2011, when it moved to Staff College, Camberley, the headquarters of the Brigade of Gurkhas was housed at Airfield Camp.

The Mess is partly two-storey, while the linked accommodation block and the nine detached four-room chalets are single-storey.

Construction is softwood framing with asbestos-cement panels, their joints covered with painted wood strips, under a tiled roof.

At the site near the airfield, the 1914 Main Depot Offices, in the same style as the Camp buildings, are also Grade II.

RFC aircraft and tents at Netheravon, June 1914
Part of the officers' quarters at Airfield Camp
DH.89A Dragon Rapide G-AJHO of the Army Parachute Association at Netheravon, 1968
Control tower in 2007