Southwood Camp

Southwood Camp
Southwood, Hampshire
The military training area to the immediate west of the former camp
Site information
Type	Barracks
Owner	Ministry of Defence
Operator	British Army
Location
Southwood Camp Location within Hampshire
Coordinates	51°17′25″N0°47′20″W / 51.2904°N 0.7890°W / 51.2904; -0.7890
Site history
Built	1939
Built for	War Office
In use	1939–c.1979

Southwood Camp was a military installation at Southwood in Hampshire.

History

The camp was completed in 1939 and was used by Canadian signals and engineer units during the Second World War. ^[1] It became a home for Royal Engineers training regiments after the war and, as consolidation of those regiments took place in 1959, it served as the home of 1 Training Regiment Royal Engineers in the 1960s and early 1970s. ^[2] After the training units transferred to modern facilities at Gibraltar Barracks, Southwood Camp closed mid-1979. ^[3] Although the military training area still exists, the site is now largely occupied by a modern housing estate which was built in the 1980s. ^[4]

References

1. Rose, Captain G.A. "Southwood Camp" . Retrieved 20 December 2019.
2. "1 Training Regiment Royal Engineers". British Army units 1945 on. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
3. Pearson, George R. (1979). Special Event Postmarks of the United Kingdom Volume 2, Volume 2. British Postmark Society. p. 131. ISBN   978-0900214011.
4. "Report to the Development Management Committee" (PDF). Rushmoor Council. Retrieved 20 December 2019.