The building of Crookham Camp in Sandy Lane, became the home of the Royal Army Medical Corps, the Royal Military Police patrolling the streets, and with a billeted soldier in almost every spare room in the village, helped make Church Crookham the liveliest it has ever been. 

Many thousands of men marched from Church Crookham to the railway station in Fleet, only to survive a few hours upon arrival at "The Front".  

A large area of Church Crookham off the Bourley Road was developed into a Transit / training camp. A number of the large, flat concrete bases which were used for the tented accommodation, still remain today.