In the December of 1894 at the Rifle Depot Winchester, a fire broke out in the pay office in the King’s House and the buildings designed and built by Christopher Wren in the 1680`s as a Royal Palace for King Charles II were destroyed. The Rifle Depot, as it was called, moved to Gosport while the barracks were rebuilt.
It took ten years to replace the original King’s House with two new buildings built in a similar style to Wren’s original design, which came to be known as the Long and Short Blocks, and once more became the Rifle Depot in 1904.
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Looking from the Sergeant’s Mess
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The Clock above the NAAFI facing long Block in the Square
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Looking up at Long Block
Looking between the columns under Long Block onto the Square
Two pictures over looking the Square from the HQ Block______
Waterloo Fountain Looking from the HQ Block towards the former Sergeant’s Mess
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A view between the columns looking central onto the Square
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This picture is looking at the Long Block area where
Sir Winston Churchill and Eisenhower
Inspected Allied Troops before the D Day Landings
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Looking out towards the old Guard Room now Cafe Peninsula at the Romsey Road entrance to the Barracks
Many a boy would have walking into Peninsula,
but marched out a Man.
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The Kings House area of the Square
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The Waterloo Fountain looking onto the old NAAFI
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Inspection at a passing out parade on the Square
9 Plt doing the double past in 1973 on their passing out parade
Platoon Photo shoot
Inspection at Bushfield Camp where a number of Green Jackets trained whilst
The Rifle Depot Peninsula Barracks was being modernised
The Regimental HQ was always in The Rifle Depot Peninsula Barracks
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For the lads that never made it Home
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A Tribute to All who Served
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Pictures By Steve Barrett, Ken Cox and The Royal Green Jackets Museum FB