RM Bickleigh

Royal Marines base in Devon, England

50°26′21″N 4°04′51″W / 50.43910°N 4.08080°W / 50.43910; -4.08080TypeRoyal Marines BaseSite informationOwnerMinistry of DefenceOperator

Royal NavyControlled by

Royal MarinesConditionOperationalWebsiteRM Bickleigh - Royal Navy Site historyBuilt1940Built forWar OfficeBuilt byA French & CoIn use1940-PresentGarrison informationOccupants42 Commando Royal Marines

RM Bickleigh, or Bickleigh Barracks, is a military installation at Bickleigh, South Hams which is currently used by 42 Commando.

History

The barracks were built by A French & Co and completed in early 1940 during the Second World War.^[1] In 1950 the Commando School Royal Marines which had been formed at Achnacarry during the war and which had moved to Gibraltar Barracks at Towyn after the war, relocated to the barracks.^[1] The Commando School moved to Lympstone in February 1960.^[1]^[2] The barracks became the home of 42 Commando in 1971.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Royal Marines History" (PDF). Marine Society and Sea Cadet Marine Cadet Section. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 July 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
^ "RMITC / CTCRM - Lympstone". Exeter Flotilla. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
^ "100 years of three towns in one". Plymouth Herald. 31 December 2013. Archived from the original on January 28, 2015. Retrieved 28 January 2015.

Royal Navy shore establishments

current

naval bases	HMNB Clyde HMNB Devonport HMNB Portsmouth HMS Jufair
training establishments	BRNC Dartmouth CTCRM Lympstone HMS Collingwood HMS Excellent HMS Raleigh HMS Sultan HMS Temeraire Institute of Naval Medicine
Royal Marines bases	RM Bickleigh RM Chivenor RM Condor RM Norton Manor RM Poole RM Stonehouse RM Tamar RM Instow
air stations	RNAS Culdrose Predannack Airfield RNAS Merryfield RNAS Yeovilton
Royal Naval Reserves	HMS Calliope HMS Cambria HMS Ceres HMS Dalriada HMS Eaglet HMS Ferret HMS Flying Fox HMS Forward HMS Hibernia HMS King Alfred HMS President HMS Scotia HMS Sherwood HMS Vivid HMS Wildfire
other	Navy Command Headquarters RNAD Coulport British Defence Singapore Support Unit UK Joint Logistics Support Base

former

home	HMS Abastor HMS Aggressive HMS Badger HMS Daedalus II HM Dockyard Chatham HM Dockyard Deptford HM Dockyard Erith HM Dockyard Harwich HM Dockyard Pembroke HM Dockyard Portland HM Dockyard Rosyth HMS Cambridge HMS Dryad HMS Ferret HMS Forest Moor HM Fort Roughs HMS Forward (1939) HMS Flycatcher HMS Ganges HMS Gannet HMS Harrier HM Holmrook Hall HMS Imperieuse HMS Lochinvar HMS Mercury HMS King Alfred (1939) Scapa Flow HMS Newt HMS Royal Arthur HMS Standard HMS St Christopher HMS St Vincent HMS Vernon Port HHZ RM Turnchapel RNAD Broughton Moor DM Crombie RNAD Dean Hill DM Gosport RNAS Prestwick (HMS Gannet) RNAY Wroughton HM Victualling Yard Royal Clarence HM Victualling Yard Royal Victoria HM Victualling Yard Royal William HM Dockyard Woolwich List of air stations of the Royal Navy
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