STOBS MILITARY CAMP HAWICK 1903 - 1959
For nearly 60 years, hundred of thousands of young men used the facilities at Stobs Camp in the Scottish Borders to train for war. Now the bleak, windswept hills lie as silent witnesses to all that passed before them. Only in fading photographs can the casual onlooker hope to glimpse some of the spirit of the camp and those who passed through it.
Updated July 1st 2016
SITE INDEX	"Too true - it is a rotten hole A dreary, cheerless place. And to Bonnie, Bonnie Scotland, A damnable disgrace. But if I swore from morn till night, The half I'd never tell, And so I think I'll save my breath And simply call it Hell .............That's STOBS" Joseph Bramwell Bush of the R.A.M.C.
	A general view of Stobs Camp The photograph to the left shows the camp being used by British army volunteers in the summer of 1905. The near identical photo to the right shows a British sentry on guard duty outside of the barbed-wire enclosure, guarding the dozens of barracks which housed German prisoners of war during the Great War.
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Grey squirrels have been spotted in the woods at Stobs for the last few years. Incursion by pox carrying grey squirrels from England is now the single largest threat to our native red squirrels in Scotland. The Squirrelpox virus is harmless to greys but is lethal to the native reds, with squirrels dying a horrible death over two weeks. The Squirrelpox virus also has the devastating effect of speeding up the rate at which grey squirrels displace and replace reds (usually about 15 years) by a factor of twenty, denying researchers adequate time to develop an effective vaccine for reds or a contraceptive for greys, along with targeted ways of administering them. ** PLEASE REPORT ANY GREY SQUIRREL SIGHTINGS TO THE WEBSITE LISTED ABOVE. Thank you..**