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The base was originally named Richmond Camp but was changed to Catterick Camp in 1915 and later modified to Catterick Garrison in 1973. After serving as a prisoner of war camp at the end of the First World War, the idea to make Catterick a permanent military barracks was first suggested after the partitioning of Ireland in 1921, to replace The ...
The last fare-paying passenger train to run on the branch from Catterick Camp Centre railway station was on 26 October 1964, though a connection to the base could still be made at Catterick Bridge station on the main branchline. [32] [33] The last train to run from Catterick Camp Centre railway station was on 8 December 1969. [34]
Gaza Barracks Catterick Garrison: England North Yorkshire The Light Dragoons [59] 3 Medical Regiment, Royal Army Medical Corps [61] 1st Regiment, Royal Military Police [59] Helles Barracks Catterick Garrison: England North Yorkshire Infantry Training Centre [62] Marne Barracks Catterick Garrison: England North Yorkshire 1994 [a]
Catterick Garrison (known as Catterick Camp until 1973) was opened during the First World War as a training facility, but in 1923 it was decided to retain the site as a permanent army base, a decision which prompted General Sir Charles Harington ask for the home to be built.
Catterick served as a regimental depot of the RAF Regiment occupied by operational Squadrons and was the training base for the RAF Regiment from 1946 to 1994 when the Regiment's training facilities moved to RAF Honington. Catterick was also the training centre for the RAF Fire Service as the RAF School of Fire Fighting until the 1990s. As a ...
ITC Catterick assumed overall responsibility for all infantry phase 2 training from the three Infantry Training Battalion sites at Catterick, Strensall and Ouston on 1 May 1995. [1] As of May 2002, the ITC assumed full control of all infantry phase 1 and 2 training for the Regular Army in a single Combat Infantryman's Course (CIC). The course ...
Bourlon Barracks, Catterick Garrison Military unit Headquarters North is the British Army's Regional Point of Command (RPoC) for North West England , North East England and Yorkshire and the Humber .
Catterick Camp railway station was a railway station in North Yorkshire, England. It was built as the terminus of the sub branch of the Eryholme-Richmond branch line to serve Catterick Camp, now Catterick Garrison. Along with the rest of the stations on the branch it was closed in 1964, but the line remained open until December 1969. [1]