Near Sudbury Airfield

I came across this on the web
http://www.babergh-south-suffolk.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/4A15B8FA-CA1C-4AED-B773-01B6F20C3EB5/0/airfields.pdf

It indicates that the area I was unsure of was defiantely the old USAAF hospital at Acton.

Can anyone help Identify the “Unknown” buildings? First 10 of my collection. I am still a bit stuck with them!

Richard

Thanks for the replies on this one, where exactly was the Station 382 depot? Constitution Hill in Sudbury is not the place I was asking about but if there is much of it left it would be worth a visit down there again.

I am stuck on this site I photographed at Acton, I can find any records of it anywhere.

Some units at Sudbury ,Suffolk not Derbyshire ! :

Sudbury 17 Special Service Company, 2 Platoon
Sudbury 152 Army Postal Unit
Sudbury 229 Quartermaster Salvage Collecting Company, Det A
Sudbury 390 Engineer General Service Regiment (-), HQ
Sudbury 390 Engineer General Service Regt, HQ & Service Co
Sudbury 390 Engineer General Service Regt, 1 Bn, HQ & HQ Det
Sudbury 390 Engineer General Service Regt, 1 Bn, Company A
Sudbury 390 Engineer General Service Regt, 1 Bn, Company B
Sudbury 390 Engineer General Service Regt, 1 Bn, Company C
Sudbury 390 Engineer General Service Regiment, Medical Det
Sudbury 534 Quartermaster Battalion, HQ & HQ Detachment
Sudbury 534 Quartermaster Battalion, Medical Detachment
Sudbury 762 Chemical Depot Company (Aviation)
Sudbury 2030 Quartermaster Truck Company (Aviation)
Sudbury 2032 Quartermaster Truck Company (Aviation)
Sudbury 2085 Quartermaster Truck Company (Aviation)
Sudbury 2091 Quartermaster Truck Company (Aviation)
Sudbury 2103 Quartermaster Truck Company (Aviation)
Sudbury 3863 Quartermaster Truck Company
Sudbury 4145 Quartermaster Service Company
Sudbury 4146 Quartermaster Service Company
Sudbury 4148 Quartermaster Service Company

Slightly off thread, but zoom in on Flashearth and you can quite clearly see a steam locomotive and rolling stock on the site.
A few years ago, the Finnish Government decided to get rid of it’s strategic reserve of steam locos, which were hidden in caves I believe.
Several of them ended up at the Acton site, unfortunately, whoever bought them didn’t appear to appreciate that they were 5’0” gauge rather than the British 4’81/2”, whether they understood the implications of this, I never found out.
Some of them ended up at Ongar in Essex, at the end of the closed tube railway, the idea being to relay the branch in 5’0”, a daunting task which has now been abandoned for obvious reasons.
When these locos first arrived, which must have been around the time of the demise of the Phantoms at Wattisham, we used to call in at Acton to see them, they were in pristine condition, but they must have deteriorated since then, presumably no one knows what to do with this out of gauge fleet, does anyone have any more knowledge on the story of this misadventure.

I have found further that AAF Station No 158 was in Sudbury,Derby. The depot was AAF No 382 at Sudbury,Suffolk.

Sudbury depot came under the command of RAF Burtonwood. It was a BADA (Base Air Depot Area) and was Detachment B of Base Air Depot No.1 ,the maintenance division activated in June 1944.Now Sudbury airfield is AAF station 174,I have the depot as AAF 158 also. The depot was deactivated 22.10.45 although some unit’s may have remained till May.1946.

This is the best I can find at present,hopefully someone else can provide more information.

There was a Quartermaster’s store at Station 382,Constitution Hill,Sudbury in 1943.