Warminster Garrison
| Headquarters, Warminster Garrison | |
|---|---|
| Warminster | |
 St. Giles Garrison Church | |
  Headquarters, Warminster Garrison Location within Wiltshire | |
| Coordinates | 51°12′43″N 2°09′36″W / 51.212°N 2.160°W |
| Type | Garrison |
| Site information | |
| Owner | Ministry of Defence |
| Operator |  British Army |
| Site history | |
| In use | 1993–present |
Warminster Garrison is a military garrison of the British Army, on the edge of Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England.
History
[edit]The history of Warminster's military garrison can be traced back to Roman Britain, where a small camp was located on the side of the current Battlesbury Barracks (part of the garrison). However, following Options for Change announced following the Dissolution of the Soviet Union and subsequent end of the Cold War, Headquarters, Combined Arms Training Centre (CATC) located in Warminster was dual-headed as Headquarters, Warminster Garrison and Warminster Training Centre on 1 April 1993. This itself formed between a merger of the now defunct Headquarters School of Infantry and the Barracks, Warminster (today known as Battlesbury Barracks). All three of these elements merged into the Warminster Training Centre (WTC).[1]
On 4 May 1995, as part of the second phase of Options for Change, the Infantry Support Weapons Wing at AAC Netheravon closed and its components moved to WTC as part of the Infantry Training Centre (ITC).[1]
To align its name with its evolving role, CATC was renamed Land Warfare Training Centre in June 2000, which was further refined in 2002 to become Land Warfare Centre (LWC) with HQ Training Support Command (Land) becoming HQ LWC. Thus WTC became known as Land Warfare Centre.[1] Sometime before 2016, LWC was renamed as Waterloo Lines.[2]
Current occupants
[edit]The current occupants of the garrison as of April 2021 is as follows:
- Commander, Warminster Garrison – Lieutenant Colonel[3]
- Garrison Sergeant Major – Warrant Officer 1[2]
- Headquarters, Land Warfare Centre[1][4]
- Headquarters, Infantry[1]
- Headquarters, Defence Training Estate[1][5]
- Regimental Headquarters, Small Arms School Corps[6]
- Specialist Weapons School[1][7]
- Junior Staff Centre (part of Sandhurst Group)[9]
- Combined Arms Tactical Trainer[1][10]
- Infantry Trials and Development Unit[11]
- Reconnaissance and Armoured Tactics Division (part of The Armour Centre at Bovington Camp)[1][12]
- Headquarters, Strike Experimentation Group[13][14][15][16]
- Royal Dragoon Guards[17] – since November 2020
- Joint Asset Management and Engineering Solutions (JAMES) Delivery Team[18]
- Falcon Area Surveillance and Reconnaissance Squadron, Royal Tank Regiment[19] (28 Engineer Regiment)
- Close Support Troop, Royal Engineers[20] (detached from 28 Engineer Regiment, supporting Falcon Squadron)
- Land Warfare Centre Battlegroup Light Aid Detachment, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers[20]
Footnotes
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Warminster Garrison: Leisure Time" (PDF). British Army. 1 September 2008. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
- ^ a b "New Sergeant Major at the helm of Warminster Garrison". Wiltshire Times. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
- ^ "Warminster Garrison army chief orders a clean up". Wiltshire Times. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
- ^ "Head of Programmes for the Land Warfare Centre - Gov.uk". p. 3. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
- ^ "Salisbury Plain Training Area - COTEC". Retrieved 26 February 2021.
- ^ "Small Arms School Corps Phase 2 & 3 Training". Retrieved 26 February 2021.
- ^ "Specialist Weapons School". Retrieved 26 February 2021.
- ^ "Gurkha Company (Tavoleto) Warminster Parade". Gurkha Brigade Association. 31 August 2018. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
- ^ "RMA Sandhurst". Retrieved 26 February 2021.
- ^ "Lockheed Martin Receives Two-Year Combined Arms Tactical Trainer Interim Support Contract". Lockheed Martin. 15 May 2018. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
- ^ Cooper, Tim (2 November 2018). "Equipment Changes Aim To Make Infantry Soldiers More Mobile". Forces News. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
- ^ "Household Cavalry Journal 2014 by RHG/D Reg Sec". p. 25. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
- ^ "Presentation by the Master of Signals" (PDF). Royal Corps of Signals. 21 September 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 November 2020. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
- ^ Charlotte Cross (25 November 2015). "How Will The Army's New 'Strike Brigades' Work?". Forces Network. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
- ^ Charlotte Cross; Laura Hawkins (23 November 2015). "#SDSR2015: 5,000-Strong 'Strike Brigades' To Be Created By 2025". Forces Network. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
- ^ Lancaster, Mark (11 December 2017). "Strike Experimentation Group". Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament. UK Hansard. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
The Strike Experimentation Group (SEG) was established in Warminster in April 2017 and is part of the headquarters of 1st Armoured Infantry Brigade
- ^ "Pictures: Prince Charles visits Royal Dragoon Guards at Catterick Garrison". Northern Echo. 12 October 2020.
- ^ "desider" (PDF). Gov.uk. Issue 102. December 2016. p. 33. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
- ^ The Royal Tank Regiment (29 January 2015). "The FUCHS Simulator is alive once more. Rhinemetall prove all systems work ready for its move south to Harman Lines, in perpetration [sic] for it's [sic] refurbishment with FALCON". Facebook. Archived from the original on 2 December 2023. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
- ^ a b "Google Maps". Google Maps. Retrieved 15 April 2021.