Queen Elizabeth Barracks (Strensall)

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Strensall Barracks is hopme to the HQ 2 Medical Brigade, 34 Field Hospital, HQ Strensall Training Centre, 9 Cadet Training Team, AMS FTC, Kings Division Recruiting Team, Army Youth Team, The Garrison Dental Centre and other smaller units. Queen Elizabeth Barracks, Strensall is situated just off the York bypass A1237/ A64 approximately 7 miles from York City centre.

34 Field Hospital was declared operational on 1 October 1996 and snce its formation the unit has served with pride and professionalism on deployed operations to Bosnia, Kosovo, Sierra Leone Iraq and Afghanistan. Its mission is to deliver deployed hospital care in order to maximize operational capability.

The hospital is one of three regular Close Support Hospitals (CSH) and is routinely manned by a cadre staff and is augmented, on deployment, by clinical staff from the Joint Medical Command, other areas of defence and, on enduring operations such as Operation ENTIRETY in Afghanistan, we are augmented in critical areas by civil healthcare Contractors on Deployed Operations (CONDO).

Just outside of the wire is Families accommodation on small estates and a community centre. Hurst Hall Community Centre can be found on Border Road in Strensall. The Community Centre provides a wide range of activities and clubs for children and families, located within the centre is HIVE and Stepping Stones Pre School

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Coordinates:   54°1'22"N   1°1'42"W

Comments

  • I completed my basic training at Strensall barracks in 1975 & went straight from basic training to Nth Ireland. I thought all of my birthdays had come at once as in all I had learnt in training had nothing on the real thing. But without being at Strensall would never have given me the discipline I needed to do the job I was tasked to do. I went onto to doing another 2 tours of Nth Ireland. I also made some great mates who to this day some 38 years later I still think of and wonder if they are ok. I am back in Australia now and carry my memories & friendship from rhe army everywhere. I purchased myself out of rhe army in 1978 (PVR) from Germany because the army split myself from the best & only company, C company. I never settled in B company but it was senior ranks ideas to split a good combat team up. Ok we were a little wild but so what, we always got the job done, and on splitting us into differing companies the army lost good soldiers. I had a brilliant time in charlie company with the POW. Sadly in the armies supposedly educational so called wise decisions from senior ranks in the end they lost good soldiers that knew what being in the army was meant to be. Not the toy soldiers who just saw the army as a career. Yes I could have made the army a career to, but only as a truly 100% professional soldier. Not a nacy boy officer from an influencial privileged family back ground who minced about with a stick up his rear end as such that never had a clue about truly being a soldier or about back to back comradeship. Thats why I purchased my self out of the British army because I was in reality not allowed to be what I wanted to be, "A SOLDIER". Or maybe, I was given the wrong advice at the recruiting centre & I was steered into the wrong regiment just to make up recruitment office regimental numbers? As when I did apply for transfers I was always turned down. So as I said before the loss at the end was sadly, the armies.
  • did you ever think that one of the main things that the people over you wanted to do was never let you know what was really going on. I feel from your comment that you would never have deliberately have shot a civilian in N I or anywhere else. I feel in terms of justice for the fallen you should look at the timing of the 1974 bombing of the barracks and the deaths in an assumed parachute drop near that time .
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