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Victoria Barracks houses the Headquarters Forces Command. Listed on the Commonwealth Heritage List in 2004, the site contains one of the most important groups of Edwardian military buildings in Australia. [1] The Army Museum of NSW is housed in the original District Military Prison, constructed in 1847.
Paddington is an upscale Eastern Suburb of Sydney, ... Victoria Barracks, including the museum, is open to visitors on Thursdays from 10:00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. [15]
The 103rd Field Battery (Howitzer) was reformed after the First World War as part of the Citizen Military Forces from 1920 to 1941 stationed at Victoria Barracks, Paddington, moving to Guilford, Western Australia in 1921. [4]
The brigade's headquarters was opened at Victoria Barracks at Paddington, New South Wales. [6] Upon formation the brigade consisted of the following infantry battalions: the 2/9th, the 2/10th, the 2/11th and the 2/12th Battalions, which were raised from Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia. [7]
Paddington Hall. The following buildings are on the Register of the National Estate: [13] Victoria Barracks (1841–48) Paddington Town Hall (1890–91) Paddington Public School (1870 and 1892 buildings) Uniting Church and Parsonage (1877) [14] [15] St Matthias Church Group (1859–61) Former St Mattias Rectory (1873) St Matthias Church Hall (1882)
Joseph Maxwell, VC, MC & Bar, DCM (10 February 1896 – 6 July 1967) was an Australian soldier, writer, and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest decoration for gallantry "in the face of the enemy" that can be awarded to members of British and Commonwealth armed forces.
By 1867 Paddington had sufficient population to be elevated to a Borough and the Chairman became a Mayor. Paddington continued to prosper and in 1890 was receiving revenue second only to Balmain Council. [2] Fifty years from its inception, in 1909, the population had risen to 26,000 in 4,800 houses and expenditure was at £21,000.
Paddington, which took its name from the London borough, lies in what were once paddocks adjacent to Victoria Barracks.It was the first of the early Sydney suburbs that was not self-sufficient - its inhabitants, unlike those of Balmain or Newtown, where work was available in local industries, had to go away each day to their places of employment.