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Guillemont Barracks
View on WikipediaGuillemont Barracks, located just off of junction 4a of the M3, on the Minley Road (A327), was a military installation at Minley in Hampshire.
Key Information
History
[edit]Military use
[edit]The barracks were built in 1938.[1] Covering 13.7ha, they were named after the German-held village of Guillemont,[1][2] which was retaken by the British Expeditionary Force, in September 1916, during the Battle of the Somme. The West Nova Scotia Regiment arrived at the barracks on 1 January 1940,[3][4][5] and the Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal, part of the Canadian 5th Brigade, were stationed at the barracks in late 1940.[1][6] King George VI and Queen Elizabeth inspected the troops on 26 March 1941.[1] The 3rd Training Regiment of the Royal Engineers were based there from 1954 until the early 1960s.[7] It then became the home of the 1st Battalion the Parachute Regiment between 1963 and 1965.[8]
Later development
[edit]The site was purchased by Sun Microsystems in 1997 for £36 million, to construct a large campus site for around 4,500 staff with data centres and UK headquarters, and was named Guillemont Park. Only the 3 largest (280,000 sq ft) of the planned 5 buildings were completed due to the Dot-com crash.[9] Property developer, Landid, bought the site in January 2011 and renamed it Sun Park.[9] In 2018, Bellway started a new residential development named Helios Park with 226 new houses.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Laekas, Michael John (2010). "Mary and John: the early years".
- ^ "Guillemont". World War I battlefields. Archived from the original on 23 April 2009. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
- ^ "War Diary of West Nova Scotia Regiment". 1 January 1940. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
- ^ "History of the West Nova Scotia Regiment and the Two World Wars". LaHave Islands Maritime Museum. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
- ^ "War Diary of West Nova Scotia Regiment at Guillemont Barracks" (PDF). 1 February 1940. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
- ^ "Transcript of Jean O'Brien's diary of the Second World War". Pegasus Archive. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
- ^ Mackintosh, H.W.B.; Baker Brown, W. (1993). "History of the Corps of Royal Engineers 1960-1908" (PDF). Institution of Royal Engineers. p. 372. ISBN 978-0903530224.
- ^ "1st Battalion the Parachute Regiment". British Army units 1945 on. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
- ^ a b "Former Sun Microsystems Headquarters sold". DB Real Estate. 17 January 2011. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
- ^ "HBS Mechanical celebrates a brace of contract wins for Bellway Homes". HBS Group. 6 August 2018. Retrieved 24 June 2023.