Enham Alamein

In 1919, George Hughes Earle of the Cavalry Club in Piccadilly in London inherited a landed estate, and sold 1,026 acres (415 ha) of it to the trustees of the Village Centres for Curative Treatment and Training Council (Incorporated).

The centre was set up, using this land, with the support of King George V and his wife Queen Mary, and adapted to house and rehabilitate and employ soldiers returning disabled from World War I with "the effects of amputations, neurasthenia, shellshock or fever".

Some of the home's patients remained there and set up in jobs such as carters, hauliers, market gardeners and dairy farmers.

In World War II, many of the injured from the Battle of El Alamein in North Africa were brought back to the recovery centre in Lower Enham.

In November 1945, two public subscriptions in Egypt raised £250,000 (worth around £8 million in 2015), to thank Britain for ridding their country of the Axis forces.

A small part went to build a new UN Forces Sports Club in Gezira in Cairo; but most was given to the Enham charity to care for disabled ex-servicemen.