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There are five bases/training facilities in Kenya, including the Kifaru Camp, which is part of the BATUK at the Kahawa Barracks in Nairobi. [8] [9] [10] [11]British personnel also run the International Security Advisory Team Sierra Leone (ISAT) in Sierra Leone, providing the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces and Police with training and mentoring, following the country's civil war.
More than 700 of those killed were British military personnel, deployed as part of Operation Banner. The vast majority of these British military personnel were killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), which waged an armed campaign to force the British to negotiate a withdrawal from Northern Ireland.
The depot was responsible for training recruits undergoing their 19-week basic training before joining a regular battalion. In 1993, the barracks were re-designated the home of the Army Training Regiment, Bassingbourn, and remained as such for nearly 20 years. [2] Bassingbourn Barracks closed as an army training location in August 2012. [3]
British re-armament was a period in British history, between 1934 and 1939, when a substantial programme of re-arming the United Kingdom was undertaken. Re-armament was deemed necessary, because defence spending had gone down from £766 million in 1919–20, to £189 million in 1921–22, to £102 million in 1932.
The British military was responsible for about 10% of all deaths in the conflict. According to one study, the British military killed 306 people [39] during Operation Banner, 156 (~51%) of whom were unarmed civilians. [40] Another study says the British military killed 301 people, 160 (~53%) of whom were unarmed civilians. [41]
The British Army retains a presence at a small number of installations primarily in the North Rhine-Westphalia area of Germany as part of what is now known as British Army Germany. [ 4 ] Overseas military bases enable the British Army to conduct expeditionary warfare , "maintain a persistent forward presence", "deter potential adversaries", and ...
Deepcut army camp, showing many of the main buildings and some of the surrounding landscape. The Deaths at Deepcut Barracks is a series of incidents that took place involving the deaths in obscure circumstances of five British Army trainee soldiers at the Princess Royal Barracks, Deepcut in the county of Surrey, between 1995 and 2002.
The base housed the Historic Weapons Collection until it moved to Maldon, Essex in 2010. [ 6 ] In March 2014, there was reason for local optimism that MoD Donnington would once more be radically expanded, with another 500 to 700 jobs being added to the 1,000 jobs that MoD Donnington then currently required. [ 7 ]