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Victoria Barracks Melbourne is an Australian Government building located on St Kilda Road in Melbourne, Australia. It was constructed in the mid-to-late 19th century as barracks for British colonial forces in Australia and was the headquarters of the Department of Defence from 1901 to 1953, also housing Australia's war cabinet during World War II .
Steele Barracks – Moorebank, Liverpool Military Area, Sydney; Blamey Barracks – Kapooka, Kapooka Military Area, Wagga Wagga; Randwick Barracks – Sydney; Victoria Barracks – Sydney; Lone Pine Barracks – Singleton; Timor Barracks – Ermington, Sydney [2] [3] Bullecourt Barracks – Adamstown (Newcastle) Lancer Barracks – Parramatta ...
Victoria Barracks is an Australian Army base in the suburb of Paddington in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Located between Oxford Street and Moore Park Road, it is just north of the Moore Park, the Sydney Cricket Ground and Sydney Football Stadium. Victoria Barracks houses the Headquarters Forces Command.
Gaza Ridge Barracks, Bandiana – Albury/Wodonga Military Area; Wadsworth Barracks, Bandiana – Albury/Wodonga Military Area; Tobruk Barracks, Puckapunyal – Puckapunyal Military Area; Hopkins Barracks, Puckapunyal – Puckapunyal Military Area; Bridges Barracks, Puckapunyal – Puckapunyal Military Area; Somme Barracks, Shepparton
The 8th/7th Battalion, Royal Victoria Regiment (8/7 RVR) is an infantry battalion of the Australian Army. It is one of two battalions that make up the Royal Victoria Regiment (RVR), along with its sister unit the 5th/6th Battalion, Royal Victoria Regiment .
It served as a headquarters during the Second World War, although its importance waned with the construction of Enoggera Barracks. [2] From 1901 to the 1990's Victoria Barracks was the Headquarters of the 1st Military District (Australia). After the disbandment of 1MD, the Barracks was home to Defence Centre Brisbane. [3]
Puckapunyal (more formally the Puckapunyal Military Area, but also known as the Puckapunyal Camp or Puckapunyal Army Base, and colloquially as "Pucka") is an Australian Army training facility and base 10 km west of Seymour, in central Victoria, south-eastern Australia.
The upper quarters still survive within the Fort. Between 1864 and 1879, the rate of military construction at Queenscliff declined. In 1870, as the last detachment of British troops left Victoria, the debate on the Colony's defences remained unresolved and the future of the Queenscliff battery was by no means certain.