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Witton Barracks
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Pedrocut
Master Barmmie
There must be quite a bit of info available, but can you be a bit more specific, or is it just a general outline?
(There is a Thread for Witton Barracks but has very little information, also one Aston Barracks.)
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(There is a Thread for Witton Barracks but has very little information, also one Aston Barracks.)
Aston Barracks
In all my years of research into the Royal Warwickshire Regiment Territorial Battalions I have never come accross a photograph showing Aston Barracks the home of the 8th Battalion, The Royal Warwicks. I have been told that once upon a time you could see the drill square from the Witton End of...
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My Mother told me many years ago that her brother Sgt. W Powell marched along Witton Lane on his way to the first world war.There must be quite a bit of info available, but can you be a bit more specific, or is it just a general outline?
(There is a Thread for Witton Barracks but has very little information, also one Aston Barracks.)
Aston Barracks
In all my years of research into the Royal Warwickshire Regiment Territorial Battalions I have never come accross a photograph showing Aston Barracks the home of the 8th Battalion, The Royal Warwicks. I have been told that once upon a time you could see the drill square from the Witton End of...
Thats as much as I know.
Moving this query to WW1 section. Edit: now moved. Viv.
Pity you haven’t a bit more info about Sgt Powell’s service Norridge. Maybe someone could search records for his military service info.
I’ve searched papers and found a parade of ex guardsmen. Presumably they’d been retired from the guards just before the end of the war.
And a couple of snippets about the cadets at the Barracks
It’s diffucult to focus a search without more info but these may at least give you a glimpse of the Barracks activities. Viv.
I’ve searched papers and found a parade of ex guardsmen. Presumably they’d been retired from the guards just before the end of the war.
And a couple of snippets about the cadets at the Barracks
It’s diffucult to focus a search without more info but these may at least give you a glimpse of the Barracks activities. Viv.
Yes
Pedrocut
Master Barmmie
I had looked down on Aston Barracks from the earth embankment at the top of the Witton End at Villa Park, but know little about it. It looks like the Barracks were part of the Lower Grounds and leased around 1908 by Edward Ansell, for the formation of the Aston Battalion of the Territorials. It was the Recruiting Officefor Aston during the Great War.
