Gibraltar Barracks, Minley

Gibraltar Barracks is a British Army installation at Minley in Hampshire.

Gibraltar Barracks
Minley
Gibraltar Barracks
Gibraltar Barracks Location within Hampshire
Coordinates	51.31799°N 0.81946°W / 51.31799; -0.81946
Type	Barracks
Site information
Owner	Ministry of Defence
Operator	British Army
Site history
Built	1976
In use	1976–present
Garrison information
Occupants	Headquarters, 8th Engineer Brigade Headquarters, Royal Corps of Army Music

History

The Royal Engineers first arrived at Minley with an engineer brigade in the early 1970s. The corps occupied Minley Manor and initially used it as their brigade headquarters. The Queen visited the site to initiate works on modern military facilities on the opposite side of the A327 Minley Road in October 1976.^[1] The new facilities were officially opened as Gibraltar Barracks by General Sir William Jackson in September 1979,^[2] the manor going on to serve as its officers' mess.^[3]

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.^[4]

Headquarters, 8th Engineer Brigade moved to Gibraltar Barracks in 2014.^[5][6]

In 2021, the corps headquarters of the Royal Corps of Army Music moved from Kneller Hall in Twickenham to Gibraltar Barracks.^[7]

Current units

The units currently based at the barracks are:

• Headquarters, Royal Corps of Army Music (since August 2021)^[7][8]
• Headquarters, 8th Engineer Brigade^[9]
• Royal School of Military Engineering Group^[10] (Headquarters in Chatham, Kent)
  • 3 Royal School of Military Engineering (3 RSME) Regiment
    • Combat Engineer School
• Mine Information and Training Centre
• Royal Engineers Trials and Development Unit^[10]
• Royal Engineers Warfare Wing^[10]

Footnotes

1. "Visit of Her Majesty the Queen to the Corps of Royal Engineers 29 October 1976". Retrieved 31 March 2018.
2. Pearson, George R. (1979). Special Event Postmarks of the United Kingdom Volume 2, Volume 2. British Postmark Society. p. 131. ISBN 978-0900214011.
3. "Minley Manor". House and Heritage. 11 November 2015. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
4. "Historic Minley Manor sold to international investor". Insider Media. 18 November 2014. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
5. "Aldershot receives £100m as part of Germany troop withdrawal". BBC. 6 March 2013. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
6. "Army 2010 Report" (PDF). Ministry of Defence. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
7. British Army, Soldier Magazine: August 2021, p. 11
8. "Engineering". www.army.mod.uk. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
9. "Aldershot receives £100m as part of Germany troop withdrawal". BBC News. 6 March 2013. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
10. "3 RSME | The British Army".

References

• Watson, Graham E.; Rinaldi, Richard A. (2018). The Corps of Royal Engineers: Organisation and Units 1889–2018. Tiger Lilly Books. ISBN 978-1717901804.