The Army Children Archive TACAPOSTINGSArmy childrens birthplaces can speak volumes about their families peripatetic lifestyles, as well as the times in which they grew up. Looking at a page of the 1. England and Wales listing families living in the 2. Hussars cavalry barracks in Aldershot, for example, reveals that the daughters of one family, respectively aged three and two, were born in Cairo, Egypt, and Norwich, England, places to which their sergeant father had been deployed, accompanied by their on the strength mother. The birthplaces of army children born between the wars, if not in India and other sunny stations, are likely to be those camps and garrisons where the British Army retained permanent bases and still do, such as Catterick, Aldershot, Colchester, Tidworth and Bulford. Following World War II, locations further afield joined the list of likely places of birth, including Malta, Cyprus, West Germany and Northern Ireland. Various aspects of Bulford Camp pictured in a postcard dating from the World War I era. The dog days of summer are here, so shouldnt astronauts hurtling through space get to enjoy some Earthly delights Today, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch some. Please note that the text below was hand typed. This book is incomplete because the copy we were working from had 2 leafs removed 4 pages. If you would like to. If the civilian aspects of life outside barracks, camps and garrisons such as the climate, the language or dialect spoken and the currency used can change with bewildering frequency often within a matter of months, but more usually within the space of a year or two the touchstones of army childrens immediate environment within the wire typically remain reassuringly constant. Over the centuries, the ways in which the British Army has catered for the families of its serving soldiers have gradually expanded from being limited to providing accommodation and schooling to supplying spiritual, community, practical and personal support and advice, courtesy of the chaplains, what is today known as the Army Welfare Service AWS and affiliated charitable bodies like the Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association SSAFA Forces Help. And when abroad, the challenge of living in an alien culture may additionally be cushioned by, for instance, the availability of certain familiar British products and foods stocked by the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes NAAFI medical and dental treatment and care and, thanks to the British Forces Broadcasting Service BFBS, British television and radio programmes. PICTURES THE CONTRASTING FORTUNES OF NINETEENTH CENTURY ARMY FAMILIES PRIOR TO OVERSEAS POSTINGS TOMMY ATKINS MARRIED PAST AND PRESENT, 1. The two images below illustrate the contrasting fortunes of those nineteenth century army families that, on the one hand, were accorded on the strength status and were therefore allowed to accompany their soldier husbands and fathers on overseas postings, and, on the other, were not recognised as being in any way the armys responsibility and were consequently left behind to fend for themselves. Torrent Horse Racing Manager 2 Frogs' title='Torrent Horse Racing Manager 2 Frogs' />While the first image shows a line up of army wives and children presenting themselves for a medical inspection and, by the look of it, a dose of some sort of tonic before setting sail probably for India the second depicts a wife whose marriage had taken place without the armys permission standing bereft with her two children on the quayside as the troopship carrying her husband and their father sails away. Both of these scenes are taken from Tommy Atkins Married Past and Present, a composite print that was first published in The Graphic on 1. January 1. 88. 4 click here to see it. Left Medical Inspection Before Embarking for Foreign Service. Right Married Without Leave Left Behind on the Departure of the Regiment. PICTURES SOUTH BARRACKS, GIBRALTARThe old colour postcard below presents a view of Gibraltars South Barracks, which date from the 1. The South Barracks, Gibraltar 1. George Lothian Hall 1. Created using watercolour, pen and black ink and graphite on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper, it is now part of the Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. Written on a fragment of the original mount is the following inscription The South Barracks Gibraltar part of the Bay and the mountains of Andalusia from the Naval Hospital March 1. Lyberty. coms weeklymonthly splash page. Yes, a splash page is old fashioned, but its been a tradition here since 1999. I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul. Exodus 3112 The Angel In The Bush Rob Morgan. Today we are continuing our studies on the subject of Christ in the book of Exodus, and our text from Exodus 3112 is. PICTURES CASEMATES BARRACKS, GIBRALTARThe colourful old postcard seen below presents a view of Casemates Barracks, in Gibraltar, which dates from 1. No longer a barracks, the buildings and surrounding area have been redeveloped click here for more from Gibraltars tourist board. The illustration below is part of the Yale Center for British Arts Paul Mellon Collection. Torrent Horse Racing Manager 2 Frogs' title='Torrent Horse Racing Manager 2 Frogs' />Created by George Lothian Hall, it shows the officers quarters and Casemates Barracks in 1. PICTURE THE BARRACKS, UP PARK CAMP, KINGSTON, JAMAICAThe photograph below is part of an album of views of Jamaica. Reproduced courtesy of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library, it shows a view of the barracks at Up Park Camp, Kingston, Jamaica. Torrent Horse Racing Manager 2 Frogs' title='Torrent Horse Racing Manager 2 Frogs' />British soldiers were stationed at the camp following its establishment in 1. Picture The New York Public Library Digital Collections http digitalcollections. Click here for further information about Up Park Camp on the Jamaica Defence Force website. PICTURE NEWCASTLE MILITARY CANTONMENT, JAMAICAA picture postcard view below of Newcastle Military Cantonment, Jamaica, once home to generations of army children. Newcastle Barracks was established on the instigation of Major General William Gomm in Jamaicas Blue Mountains in 1. Kingston, where the British were prone to succumbing to yellow fever. In her autobiography, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands 1. Mary Seacole 1. 80. Mary Jane Grant, the Kingston born nurse and healer, wrote that by 1. Newcastle, or the adjacent Up Park Camp. A decade later, Marys services were in even greater demand, for the yellow fever never made a more determined effort to exterminate the English in Jamaica than it did in that dreadful year. My house was full of sufferers officers, their wives and children. It was a terrible thing to see young people in the youth and bloom of life suddenly stricken down, not in battle with an enemy that threatened their country, but in vain contest with a climate that refused to adopt them. Vb Net File Properties Build Action. Indeed, the mother country pays a dear price for the possession of her colonies. PERSONAL STORY IT WAS A MAGICAL PLACE, WITH PALM TREES AND COFFEE PLANTATIONS, JAMAICA, 1. With her father serving with the 2nd Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Mairi Patersons army childhood began and ended in Stirling, Scotland, where she lived from 1. The years in between saw her family posted to Aldershot, Hampshire, between 1. Isle of Wight 1. Jamaica 1. Wei Hai Wei today called Weihai, north eastern China 1. Mairis memories of travelling there in 1. Wei Hai Wei and Hong Kong 1. Scotland PERSONAL STORY SAILING FROM HONG KONG HOME TO SCOTLAND, 1. Torrent Horse Racing Manager 2 Frogs' title='Torrent Horse Racing Manager 2 Frogs' />Stirling Castle PERSONAL STORY NOW I WAS LIVING IN A CASTLE STIRLING CASTLE, 1. In the account that follows, Mairi outlines the early years of her life as an army child, before recalling in evocative detail the two years that she and her family spent in Jamaica. My father, Hugh Campbell, from Lochgilphead, Argyll, joined the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders at Fort George. He became an instructor and was a good shot, competing at Bisley Surrey. When World War I broke out, he was seconded to the Kings West African Rifles in Nigeria as an instructor. He was wounded in what was then German East Africa.