Gibraltar Barracks, Minley Explained

Gibraltar Barracks
Type:Barracks
Map Type:Hampshire
Pushpin Map Caption:Location within Hampshire
Location:Minley
Ownership:Ministry of Defence
Built:1976
Used:1976–present
Occupants:

Gibraltar Barracks is a British Army installation at Minley in Hampshire.

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]

Headquarters, 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]

Current units

The units currently based at the barracks are:

References

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Visit of Her Majesty the Queen to the Corps of Royal Engineers 29 October 1976. 31 March 2018.
  2. Book: Pearson, George R. . Special Event Postmarks of the United Kingdom Volume 2, Volume 2. 131. British Postmark Society. 1979. 978-0900214011.
  3. Web site: Minley Manor. House and Heritage. 11 November 2015. 7 September 2020.
  4. Web site: Historic Minley Manor sold to international investor. 18 November 2014. Insider Media. 31 March 2018.
  5. Web site: Aldershot receives £100m as part of Germany troop withdrawal. BBC. 6 March 2013. 20 December 2014.
  6. Web site: Army 2010 Report. Ministry of Defence. 20 December 2014.
  7. British Army, Soldier Magazine: August 2021, p. 11
  8. Web site: Engineering. 2021-09-09. www.army.mod.uk. en-GB.
  9. Web site: 6 March 2013 . Aldershot receives £100m as part of Germany troop withdrawal . 20 December 2014 . BBC News.
  10. Web site: 3 RSME The British Army .