Queen Elizabeth Barracks, Church Crookham

Queen Elizabeth Barracks
Church Crookham
The main administration building, now known as the "Boyce Building"
Queen Elizabeth Barracks
Location within Hampshire
Coordinates 51°15′16″N 0°49′52″W / 51.2544°N 0.8312°W / 51.2544; -0.8312Coordinates: 51°15′16″N 0°49′52″W / 51.2544°N 0.8312°W / 51.2544; -0.8312
Type Barracks
Site information
Owner Ministry of Defence
Operator  British Army
Site history
Built 1938
Built for War Office
In use 1938-2000

Queen Elizabeth Barracks was a military installation at Church Crookham, Hampshire, England.

History

The barracks, which were originally known as Boyce Barracks after Major William Wallace Boyce, DSO, RAMC,[1] were built as a training depot for the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1938.[2][3] The barracks were renamed Queen Elizabeth Barracks following a visit by Queen Elizabeth in 1948.[2] The wooden hutted camp, with barrack blocks arranged as 'spiders', could accommodate 2,500 soldiers.[2]

The Royal Army Medical Corps left the site in 1962 and were replaced by training regiments of the Royal Corps of Transport in 1965 and by Gurkha Regiments in 1970.[2] After the Gurkha Regiments left in 2000, the site was decommissioned and acquired by Bryant Homes in 2002.[2] It has since been renamed Khukri Park.[4] The main administration building was moved to the Aldershot Military Museum.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Major William Wallace Boyce, DSO, RAMC". Malta RAMC. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Quent, Karl. "What's under the earth we dig" (PDF). Church Crookham Allotments Association. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
  3. ↑ "ASU Building, QE Barracks, Church Crookham" (PDF). Oxford Archaeology. p. 3. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
  4. ↑ Taylor Woodrow (2002). "Bryant Acquires Major Brownfield Development Site". Archived from the original on 12 May 2006. Retrieved 28 November 2006.
  5. ↑ "Wartime Barracks Saved And Moved To Aldershot Military Museum". Culture 24. 16 November 2006. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
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