Regimental depot
The regimental depot of a regiment is the regimental headquarters and normally also the place where recruits are assembled and trained. It is also where soldiers and officers awaiting discharge or postings are based, and where injured soldiers return to full fitness after discharge from hospital before returning to full duty. A variety of regimental stores will also be kept at the depot.
In the British Army, regimental depots are permanent bases, and before modern amalgamations, were frequently located in the geographical area from which the regiment took its name.
List of UK Regimental Depots in the 1880s
A list of barracks in Britain and Ireland either designated or newly built to serve as localization depots for infantry regiments in the wake of the Cardwell Reforms of the 1870s and the Childers Reforms which followed.[1]
- Caterham Barracks, Surrey (Foot Guard regiments)
- Glencorse Barracks, Midlothian (Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment))
- Stoughton Barracks, Guildford (Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment))
- Canterbury Barracks (Buffs (East Kent Regiment))
- Bowerham Barracks, Lancaster (King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment))
- Fenham Barracks, Newcastle upon Tyne (Northumberland Fusiliers & Durham Light Infantry)
- Budbrooke Barracks, Warwick (Royal Warwickshire Regiment)
- Hounslow Barracks (Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) & The (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Middlesex Regiment)
- Peninsula Barracks, Warrington (King's (Liverpool Regiment) & Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment))
- Britannia Barracks, Norwich (Norfolk Regiment)
- Sobraon Barracks, Lincoln (The Lincolnshire Regiment)
- Topsham Barracks, Exeter (Devonshire Regiment)
- Gibraltar Barracks, Bury St Edmunds (Suffolk Regiment)
- Jellalabad Barracks, Taunton (Prince Albert's (Somersetshire Light Infantry))
- Imphal Barracks, York (Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment))
- Victoria Barracks, Beverley (East Yorkshire Regiment)
- Kempston Barracks (Bedfordshire Regiment)
- Glen Parva Barracks (Leicestershire Regiment)
- Victoria Barracks, Clonmel (The Royal Irish Regiment)
- Richmond Barracks, North Yorkshire (Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment))
- Wellington Barracks, Bury (Lancashire Fusiliers)
- Ayr Barracks (Royal Scots Fusiliers)
- Chester Castle (Cheshire Regiment)
- Hightown Barracks, Wrexham (Royal Welsh Fusiliers)
- The Barracks, Brecon (South Wales Borderers)
- Berwick Barracks (The King's Own Borderers)
- Hamilton Barracks (The Cameronians (Scotch Rifles))
- St Lucia Barracks, Omagh (Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers)
- Horfield Barracks, Bristol (Gloucestershire Regiment)
- Norton Barracks (Worcestershire Regiment)
- Burnley Barracks (East Lancashire Regiment)
- The Barracks, Kingston upon Thames (East Surrey Regiment)
- Victoria Barracks, Bodmin (Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry)
- Wellesley Barracks, Halifax (Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment))
- Carlisle Castle (Border Regiment)
- The Barracks, Chichester (Royal Sussex Regiment)
- Lower Barracks, Winchester (Hampshire Regiment)
- Whittington Barracks, Lichfield (South Staffordshire Regiment & (The (Prince of Wales's) North Staffordshire Regiment)
- Dorchester Depot Barracks (Dorsetshire Regiment)
- Maindy Barracks, Cardiff (Welsh Regiment)
- Queen's Barracks, Perth (Black Watch (Royal Highlanders))
- Bullingdon Barracks, Cowley (Oxfordshire Light Infantry)
- Warley Barracks (Essex Regiment)
- Normanton Barracks, Derby (Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regiment))
- Fulwood Barracks, Preston (Loyal North Lancashire Regiment)
- Northampton Barracks (Northamptonshire Regiment)
- Brock Barracks, Reading (Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Berkshire Regiment))
- Maidstone Barracks (Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment))
- Pontefract Barracks (The King's Own Light Infantry (South Yorkshire Regiment) & The York and Lancaster Regiment)
- Copthorne Barracks, Shrewsbury The King's Light Infantry (Shropshire Regiment)
- Peninsula Barracks, Winchester (King's Royal Rifle Corps & The Prince Consort's Own Rifle Brigade)
- Le Marchant Barracks, Devizes (The (Duke of Edinburgh's) Wiltshire Regiment)
- Ladysmith Barracks, Manchester (Manchester Regiment)
- Garrioch Barracks, Glasgow (Highland Light Infantry)
- Fort George, Ardersier (Seaforth Highlanders (Duke of Albany's/Ross-shire Buffs))
- Castlehill Barracks, Aberdeen (Gordon Highlanders)
- Cameron Barracks, Inverness (Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders)
- Victoria Barracks, Belfast (Royal Irish Rifles)
- Gough Barracks, Armagh (Princess Victoria's (Royal Irish Fusiliers))
- Castlebar Barracks (Connaught Rangers)
- Stirling Castle (Princess Louise's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders))
- Crinkill Barracks, Birr (Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians))
- Ballymullen Barracks, Tralee (Royal Munster Fusiliers)
- Naas Barracks (Royal Dublin Fusiliers)
References
- ↑ Douet, James (1998). British Barracks 1600-1914. Swindon: English Heritage.
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