| Braganza Street drill hall | |
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| Kennington, London | |
 Braganza Street drill hall | |
 <div style="position: absolute; top: Expression error: Missing operand for *.%; left: 60.6%; height: 0; width: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"> Braganza Street drill hall Location within London
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| Coordinates | 51°29′15″N 0°06′10″W / 51.48748°N 0.10278°WCoordinates: 51°29′15″N 0°06′10″W / 51.48748°N 0.10278°W |
| Type | Drill Hall |
| Site history | |
| Built | 1865 |
| Built for | War Office |
| In use | 1865-Present |
The Braganza Street drill hall is a military installation in Braganza Street, Walworth.
History[]
The building originates from a pair of houses built in what was then known as New Street in 1833 and which were acquired by the 19th Surrey Rifle Volunteer Corps in 1865.[1] The 19th Surrey Rifle Volunteer Corps evolved to become the 4th Volunteer Battalion, Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) in 1883[2][3] and the 24th (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment (Queen's) in 1908.[4] The battalion was mobilised at the drill hall in August 1914 before being deployed to the Western Front.[5] When the London Regiment was broken up in 1937, the battalion became the 7th (Southwark) Battalion, the Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey).[2] The drill hall, in what was by then known as Braganza Street, was substantially re-built at that time and the enlarged facility was opened by the Duke of Gloucester in 1938.[1]
After the war the battalion converted to artillery and, in 1947, became the 622nd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery.[2] After the Royal Artillery went through a re-organisation and vacated the hall, a new field hospital, 217 (London) General Hospital Royal Army Medical Corps, was formed at the Braganza Street drill hall in 1967.[4] That unit amalgamated with other field hospitals in 1995 to form 256 (City of London) Field Hospital[6] and the drill hall is now the regimental headquarters of that unit.[4]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Osborne, Mike (2012). Defending London: A Military History from Conquest to Cold War. History Press. ISBN 978-0752479316. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5mc7AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT224&lpg=PT224&dq=Braganza+Street+drill+hall&source=bl&ots=nuqT3oj5gC&sig=JJCLCELHTg0Z5bkOKGZhwNIX5XU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiQ5u7w75XUAhXmAMAKHZjvAH8Q6AEIRDAF#v=onepage&q=Braganza%20Street%20drill%20hall&f=false.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "24th London Regiment (The Queen's)". Regiments.org. Archived from the original on 1 January 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20070101205535/http://regiments.org/regiments/uk/volmil-london/vinf/L24Q.htm. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
- ↑ "The Surrey Rifle Volunteers 1859 - 1908". Queen's Royal Surreys. http://www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk/militia_vol_territorial/mvt40_1.html. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Drill Hall Register: A list of the locations of London Drill Halls since 1908". http://www.steppingforwardlondon.org/assets/docs/sections/17.pdf. Retrieved 14 May 2017.
- ↑ "The London Regiment". The Long, Long Trail. http://www.1914-1918.net/london.htm. Retrieved 21 May 2017.
- ↑ "The Royal Army Medical Corps". Reserve Forces and Cadets Association for Greater London. http://www.steppingforwardlondon.org/the-royal-army-medical-corps.html. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
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