The sudden outbreak of World War One resulted in a rush of building across the South of England in order to facilitate the vast numbers of men coming from the Commonwealth and who were being trained here before being sent to the Front Lines.
Built from timber, rows and rows of "Hutments" were erected, and primarily billeted an Officer Cadet Training Battalion. As a result of the style in which the camp was built, ie. in lines, and having been erected upon the instructions of General Haig, the camp became known as the "Haig Lines". 

After WWI, Haig Lines was used as the Depot and Training Establishment  for the R.A.M.C, (Royal Army Medical Corps.) before going on to play it's part in World War II, when it was used as a reception camp for Canadian Army personnel. During the Hungarian Uprising crisis in 1956, the Camp was used to house Hungarian refugees. 

The camp was demolished in the mid-1980's, to create the residential area of what is now the Haig Road estate, found off Aldershot Road, Church Crookham.

 

* Construction of the Haig Lines,  September 1914.   Picture kindly supplied by Mr. B. Potter.