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Combined Operations Training Centre

Combined Operations Training Centre

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The Combined Operations Training Centre, also known as No.1 Combined Training Centre, Inveraray was a military installation on the banks of Loch Fyne near Inveraray in Scotland.

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History

A lecture at HMS Quebec in Inverary

The centre was established in October 1940.[1]

Each of the services had a presence at the centre, the army in the form of training staff specialising in the military engineering required for amphibious landings, the Navy in the form of HMS Quebec, a unit which trained staff in the use and maintenance of landing craft for such techniques and the air force in the form of RAF officers who could call on air support from No. 516 Squadron for training in such techniques.[1]

Around a quarter of a million troops trained at the centre prior to the D-Day landings. Some 30 senior officers, each with a staff vehicle and radio also took part in a top secret deception exercise to convince the Germans that a major sea assault was being prepared but could not be launched until at least September 1944.[1][2]

The centre closed in June 1946[1] and the site is now occupied by a caravan park.[3]

Commandants

Commandants were as follows:

References

  1. [1]
    "No. 1 Combined Operations Training Centre". Combined Operations. Retrieved 18 March 2019.
  2. [2]
    "Major General Desmond Mangham - obituary". Daily Telegraph. 17 December 2014. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  3. [3]
    "Loch Fyne, Dalchenna, Combined Operations Training Centre, HMS Quebec, Kilbride Camp". Canmore. Retrieved 18 March 2019.
  4. [4]
    "Inveraray in Wartime". Combined Operations. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
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    "Sir John Laurie, 6th Baronet". The Peerage. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
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