Guillemont Barracks, located just off of junction 4a of the M3, on the Minley Road (A327), was a military installation at
Minley
Minley is a slightly depopulated rural, well-wooded village in the Hart District of Hampshire, England. It has the only church of the C of E ecclesiastical parish of Minley and is in the civil parish of Blackwater and Hawley. It straddles on the ...
in
Hampshire
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.
History
The barracks were built in 1938.
Covering 13.7ha, they were named after the German-held village of Guillemont,
which was retaken by British Empire Forces, in September 1916, during the
Battle of the Somme. The
West Nova Scotia Regiment arrived at the barracks on 1 January 1940, and the
Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal
Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal is a Primary Reserve infantry regiment of the Canadian Army.
Lineage
File:FMR Colours.jpg, The regimental colour of Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal.
File:FMR Camp Flag.jpg, The camp flag of Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal.
File:Fusi ...
, part of the
Canadian 5th Brigade, were stationed at the barracks in late 1940.
and
Queen Elizabeth inspected the troops on 26 March 1941.
The 3rd Training Regiment of the
Royal Engineers were based there from 1954 until the early 1960s. It then became the home of the 1st Battalion the
Parachute Regiment between 1963 and 1965.
The site was purchased by
Sun Microsystems in 1997 for £36 million.
After Sun Microsystems moved to
Reading
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For educators and researchers, reading is a multifaceted process involving such areas as word recognition, orthography (spelling ...
, the property developer, Landid, bought the site in January 2011. In December 2013, a planning application to demolish the part built structures and to build 150 homes on the site was refused.
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Barracks in England