Anglesea Barracks

Anglesea Barracks
Hobart, Tasmania
The two story Soldiers' Barracks at Anglesea Barracks. This building was built between 1847 and 1848.
Site information
Type	Defence Establishment
Controlled by	Australian Defence Organisation, Australian Government
Location
Coordinates	42°53′19″S147°19′32″E / 42.888745°S 147.325496°E / -42.888745; 147.325496
Site history
Built	1814
In use	1814–present

Anglesea Barracks is an Australian Defence Force barracks in central Hobart, Tasmania. The site was chosen in December 1811 by Lachlan Macquarie and construction began on the first buildings to occupy the site in 1814. ^[1] It is the oldest Australian Army barracks still in use and celebrated its bicentenary in December 2011. ^[2]

Despite the small variation in spelling it was named after Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey who was involved with the Board of Ordnance. ^[3]

Current units and facilities

Anglesea Barracks is the administrative centre for all Defence sites in Tasmania.

The barracks is home to various civilian and military departments including:

• Battalion HQ, 12th/ 40th Battalion, The Royal Tasmania Regiment;
• Adelaide Universities Regiment, Tasmania Company;
• Australian Army Band – Tasmania;
• No. 29 Squadron RAAF (Royal Australian Air Force);
• Navy Headquarters Tasmania (Royal Australian Navy);
• TS Hobart, Australian Navy Cadet Band ^[4]
• Anglesea Barracks Medical Centre;
• Defence Estate and Infrastructure Group – Service Delivery Division Victoria & Tasmania;
• Defence Force Recruiting
• Australian Air Force Cadets - 502 Squadron & 5 Wing Headquarters
• Australian Army Cadets - Tasmania Battalion Headquarters

Angelsea Barracks messing

The Sergeants' Mess in 2010

The barracks contains an Officers' Mess and Sergeants' Mess.

Other facilities

It also houses, in the old jail, the Army Museum of Tasmania.

The site is also home to one of two Defence National Contact Centres with the other being located in Cooma, NSW.

Notes

1. "AHPI Anglesea Barracks". www.heritage.gov.au. Archived from the original on 8 March 2012.
2. "Australia's oldest operational barracks celebrates its bicentenary". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 3 December 2011. Retrieved 13 December 2011.
3. Jobson 2009, p. 102.
4. "TS Hobart". www.cadetnet.gov.au. Archived from the original on 20 August 2013.

References

• Jobson, Christopher (2009). Looking Forward, Looking Back: Customs and Traditions of the Australian Army. Wavell Heights, Queensland: Big Sky Publishing. ISBN   9780980325164.

External links

• Discover Tasmania: Anglesea Barracks
• Military Museum of Tasmania