Gibraltar Barracks, Minley

Gibraltar Barracks is a military installation at Minley in Hampshire.

Gibraltar Barracks
Minley
Gibraltar Barracks
Gibraltar Barracks is located in Hampshire
Gibraltar Barracks
Gibraltar Barracks
Location within Hampshire
Coordinates51.31799°N 0.81946°W / 51.31799; -0.81946
TypeBarracks
Site information
OwnerMinistry of Defence
Operator British Army
Site history
Built1976
In use1976–present
Garrison information
Occupants

History

The Royal Engineers first arrived at Minley with an engineer brigade in the early 1970s. The corps occupied Minley Manor and initially used it as their brigade headquarters. The Queen visited the site to initiate works on modern military facilities on the opposite side of the A327 Minley Road in October 1976.[1] The new facilities were officially opened, as Gibraltar Barracks, by General Sir William Jackson in September 1979,[2] the manor going on to serve as its officers' mess.[3]

Between 2008 and 2013, as part of the RSME-PPP project, the Holdfast consortium redeveloped the barracks and built a new officers' mess on the site so allowing the manor to be sold.[4] 8th Engineer Brigade moved to Gibraltar Barracks in 2014.[5][6]

In 2021, the corps headquarters of the Royal Corps of Army Music moved from Kneller Hall in Twickenham to Gibraltar Barracks.[7]

Garrison in 2021

The garrison of the station in 2021 includes:

Footnotes
  1. "Visit of Her Majesty the Queen to the Corps of Royal Engineers 29 October 1976". Retrieved 31 March 2018.
  2. Pearson, George R. (1979). Special Event Postmarks of the United Kingdom Volume 2, Volume 2. British Postmark Society. p. 131. ISBN 978-0900214011.
  3. "Minley Manor". House and Heritage. 11 November 2015. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
  4. "Historic Minley Manor sold to international investor". Insider Media. 18 November 2014. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
  5. "Aldershot receives £100m as part of Germany troop withdrawal". BBC. 6 March 2013. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  6. "Army 2010 Report" (PDF). Ministry of Defence. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  7. British Army, Soldier Magazine: August 2021, p. 11
  8. "Engineering". www.army.mod.uk. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
  9. "3 RSME". www.army.mod.uk. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
  10. Watson & Rinaldi, p. 266
  11. Watson & Rinaldi, pp. 276–277
  12. Royal Engineers Association Newsletter, 16th February 2016. Royal Engineers Association, Chatham.
  13. Royal Engineers Association, Map of units of the Royal Engineers as at October 2018.
  14. "Royal Engineers Trials and Development Unit - Regiment History, War & Military Records & Archives". www.forces-war-records.co.uk. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
  15. "Royal Engineers trial new bridges for army rescue and assault missions". www.army-technology.com. Retrieved 9 September 2021.

References
  • Watson, Graham E.; Rinaldi, Richard A. (2018). The Corps of Royal Engineers: Organisation and Units 1889–2018. Tiger Lilly Books. ISBN 978-1717901804.
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