Chetwynd Barracks is a military installation at

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History

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The Chilwell depot and barracks were built for the

Royal Army Ordnance Corps The Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC) was a corps of the British Army. At its renaming as a Royal Corps in 1918 it was both a supply and repair corps. In the supply area it had responsibility for weapons, armoured vehicles and other military equip ...

shortly after the

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on the former site of the

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which had been completely devastated by an explosion in July 1918. The site continued to be used as a central ordnance depot after the

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and, although the central vehicle kit store closed in 1958, when operations moved to

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, it continued to operate as a general stores depot and a vehicle workshop. The site was renamed Chetwynd Barracks, after

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who had been Managing Director of the National Shell Filling Factory, in 1995 and became the home of 49 (East) Brigade. Under

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, 49 (East) Brigade was merged with

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to become

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which relocated to Chetwynd Barracks on 13 February 2015. In late March 2016, the

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announced that the site was one of ten to be sold in order to reduce the size of the Defence Estate. In November 2016 the Ministry of Defence announced that the site would close in 2021. This was subsequently extended to 2024, and once more to 2026.

Operations

Units stationed at Chetwynd Barracks include: *Headquarters, 7th Infantry Brigade * Headquarters East *

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**62 Works Group

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** 63 Works Group

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*Nottinghamshire Band of the

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*Mission Training and Mobilisation Centre (Individual) (MTMC(I)) *Nottingham Troop, 721 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Squadron RLC

References

{{reflist Installations of the British Army Barracks in England

History

Operations

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