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    Shorncliffe Army Camp is a British Army installation near Cheriton in Kent, established in 1794. The camp, described as "the birthplace of the modern...
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  • Shorncliffe Camp can refer to: Shorncliffe Redoubt – a British Napoleonic earthwork fort Shorncliffe Army Camp – a large military establishment in Cheriton...
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  • suburb Shorncliffe, Kent, a district of Folkestone, Kent, England, home to an army camp Shorncliffe Army Camp, a military establishment Shorncliffe Redoubt...
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    brought forward by Colonel Coote Manningham and Sir John Moore. Shorncliffe Army Camp remains nearby and is still in use. The Redoubt itself has fallen...
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  • Counter Terrorist Training and Advisory Team, at Risborough Barracks, Shorncliffe Army Camp 1 Squadron, Honourable Artillery Company will provide Special Patrols...
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    English terminal of the Channel Tunnel as well as of the major army barracks of Shorncliffe Camp. The coastal plain where the North Downs meet the Strait of...
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    in SE Asia. The 2nd Battalion, Royal Gurkha Rifles is based at Shorncliffe Army Camp, near Folkestone in Kent as part of 16 Air Assault Brigade, and...
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  • the British Army from Shorncliffe Army Camp for training; during wartime, and especially during World War I and World War II temporary camps were built...
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    Trapaud. He returned to Great Britain in 1803 to command a brigade at Shorncliffe Army Camp near Folkestone, where he established the innovative system of drill...
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  • Down Camp in 1992. The Royal Army Educational Corps managed a number of Army Schools of Education: Inter-war The Army School of Education, Shorncliffe Army...
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    London. His mother, Margaret Mary "Peggy" (née Burns), was born at Shorncliffe Army Camp near Cheriton, Kent. Her paternal grandparents were Irish immigrants...
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  • Section, Corps of Military Police, Shorncliffe Army Camp Section, Corps of Military Police, Shorncliffe Army Camp Section, Corps of Military Police, Dover...
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    had a military camp, Shorncliffe Army Camp, on top of the cliffs adjacent to it. Burnett named the cliffs Shorncliffe after the camp in Kent, due to...
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    venues including Cambridge University, the Oxford Town Hall, the Shorncliffe Army Camp base in Kent, the Mechanics Institute Hall in Nottingham and the...
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    Field Army is a command of the British Army responsible for generating and preparing forces for current and contingency operations. Commander Field Army reports...
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    Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford (category British Army generals)
    England in 1874 as colonel on the staff, commanding the forces at Shorncliffe Army Camp, and was appointed to command a brigade at Aldershot, with the temporary...
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    Bernard Montgomery (category British Army personnel of World War I)
    in 1912 became adjutant of the 1st Battalion of his regiment at Shorncliffe Army Camp. The Great War began in August 1914 and Montgomery moved to France...
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    Expeditionary Force. It was formed in December 1915, and trained at Shorncliffe Army Camp in Kent. It did not see combat as an independent unit; its soldiers...
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    secondary targets at the Channel port of Folkestone and the nearby Shorncliffe Army Camp. At Shorncliff and Cheriton, 17 Canadian soldiers were killed and...
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  • William Francis Patrick Napier (category British Army generals)
    be trained at Shorncliffe Army Camp. Through Sir John Moore he soon obtained a company in the 43rd, joined that regiment at Shorncliffe and became a great...
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    Francis Grenfell, 1st Baron Grenfell (category British Army personnel of the Mahdist War)
    Anglo-Zulu War and then returned to England to become brigade major at Shorncliffe Army Camp shortly before he was promoted to brevet lieutenant colonel on 29...
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  • John Moore Barracks may refer to: Sir John Moore Barracks, Shorncliffe at Shorncliffe Army Camp (1890-present) Sir John Moore Barracks, Shrewsbury (1960...
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    Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (category Regiments of the British Army in World War II)
    Féin and the IRA. It moved to Shorncliffe Army Camp, England, two years later. In 1925 the battalion joined the British Army of Occupation in Germany, remaining...
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    Parachute Regiment, in Leeds (Army Reserve) 1st Battalion, Royal Gurkha Rifles, at Sir John Moore Barracks, Shorncliffe 53 (Louisburg) Air Assault Battery...
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    Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) (category Rifle regiments of the British Army)
    brought into the line of the British Army as the 95th Regiment of Foot. In 1803, the 95th moved to Shorncliffe Army Camp, Kent, where it underwent light infantry...
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    rejoined the Rifles, and was trained with the other officers in the Shorncliffe Army Camp by Sir John Moore, who secured his promotion to the rank of captain...
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    Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy (category British Army personnel of the Mahdist War)
    Britain, arriving on 22 April, and proceeding to their new base at Shorncliffe Army Camp in Kent. During the summer of 1884, Byng spent much of his time...
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    'technical support' for the Band of the Brigade of Gurkhas, based at Shorncliffe Camp, Folkestone, which is separately constituted. Other bands may be formed...
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  • 10th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom) (category Infantry brigades of the British Army in World War I)
    formation in 1902, originally based at Shorncliffe Army Camp and serving with the 5th Division in the 2nd Army Corps until 1907. In the Expeditionary...
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    1892. In January 1895, he was appointed to command the troops at Shorncliffe Army Camp. It was there that he died in May 1898, following a brief illness...
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