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Soon afterwards, the Second Battalion the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment was posted to Woolwich from Cyprus. In 2012, an artillery link was regained when the King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery, moved from the St John's Wood Barracks to a new headquarters on the Woolwich site, bringing with them a complement of 120 or thereabouts horses ...
Part of Connaught Mews, built as the Royal Artillery Hospital (central block 1780, wings 1796) In 1780, shortly after the opening of the artillery barracks, the Royal Artillery Hospital was opened close by, just to the east of the barracks. Later known as the Royal Ordnance Hospital, it was one of the first purpose-built military hospitals in ...
Regimental Headquarters, at Royal Artillery Barracks, Woolwich Station [9] [10] All Arms Staff Pool; 221 (Wessex) Battery, at Royal Artillery Barracks, Larkhill Garrison [11] 255 (Somerset Yeomanry) Battery, at Upper Bristol Road Army Reserve Centre, Bath [12] [13] 101 (Northumbrian) Regiment, Royal Artillery — Divisional MLRS paired with ...
It was overseen by the Inspector General of Ordnance Hospitals, based at the Royal Artillery Hospital, Woolwich, who made recommendation for the appointment and promotion of medical officers, issued them with instructions and guidance, and had oversight of the management of Artillery Hospitals (of which there were eighteen Great Britain in 1810 ...
The Boer War Memorial in Woolwich is opposite the Royal Artillery Barracks on Grand Depot Road in Woolwich. The memorial marks the deaths of the 18 soldiers of the 61st Battery Royal Field Artillery who died in the Second Boer War. The memorial is a tall thin pink granite obelisk on a square plinth with a three-step base. [1]
Rollo became surgeon-general of the Royal Artillery in 1794, and returned to the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. [3] There he oversaw the construction of the enlarged Royal Artillery Hospital: the Royal Ordnance Hospital dated from about 1780, and the enlargement was completed in 1806 (the building later became the Connaught Barracks).
Queen Elizabeth Military Hospital, Woolwich (opened 1977, closed 1996) Musgrave Park Hospital; Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley (opened 1863, closed 1958) Royal Hospital Chelsea; Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich (opened 1865, closed 1977) Stoke Military Hospital, Devonport (opened c.1795, closed 1926) Tidworth Military Hospital (opened 1907 ...
In 1902 the Battery was known as 54 Company Royal Garrison Artillery, but by 1924 had amalgamated with 55 Company and renamed 8 Heavy Battery Royal Artillery. During the First World War the Battery frequently engaged German submarines and the Governor, Lieutenant General Sir Herbert Miles presented a pair of binoculars to the Rock Fishing Club.