Gibraltar Barracks is a military installation at

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History

The Royal Engineers first arrived at Minley with an engineer brigade in the early 1970s. The corps occupied

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and initially used it as their brigade headquarters.

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visited the site to initiate works on modern military facilities on the opposite side of the A327 Minley Road in October 1976. The new facilities were officially opened, as Gibraltar Barracks, by General Sir William Jackson in September 1979, the manor going on to serve as its

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. Between 2008 and 2013, as part of the RSME- PPP project, the Holdfast consortium redeveloped the barracks and built a new officers' mess on the site so allowing the manor to be sold. 8th Engineer Brigade moved to Gibraltar Barracks in 2014. In 2021, the corps headquarters of the

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moved from Kneller Hall in

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to Gibraltar Barracks.British Army, ''Soldier Magazine: August 2021'', p. 11

Garrison in 2021

The garrison of the station in 2021 includes: * Corps Headquarters,

(since August 2021) * Brigade Headquarters, 8th Engineer Brigade *

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(HQ based in Chatham,

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)Watson & Rinaldi, pp. 276–277 ** 3rd Royal School of Military Engineering Regiment, Royal Engineers *** Combat Engineer School * Mine Information and Training Centre (United Kingdom) * Royal Engineers Trials and Development Unit * Royal Engineers Warfare Wing

Footnotes

References

* {{Cite book, last1=Watson, first1=Graham E., title=The Corps of Royal Engineers: Organisation and Units 1889–2018, last2=Rinaldi, first2=Richard A., publisher=Tiger Lilly Books, year=2018, isbn=978-1717901804 Installations of the British Army Barracks in England