Bordon Camp

[2] The barracks at Bordon were to be named after successful battles and locations from the North American campaign, during the Seven Years' War against France.

[2] Having just returned from the Boer War, the first occupants of Quebec barracks at Bordon Camp were the Somersetshire Light Infantry in April 1903.

However it was built on boggy ground and the troops immediately began to complain of problems and the medical officers of ill health.

[4] At the northern end of Louisburg Barracks Central Road was a veterinary hospital with 24 loose boxes and 20 stalls, to care for sick artillery horses.

The speciality Canadian Forestry Corps set up a steam-powered saw mill near the Deer's Hut Inn, Liphook.

[3][4] The 1930s construction ended with the building of the wooden hutted training camp at Oxney Farm, named Martinique barracks.

[3] This brought about the consolidation of the camps' facilities, with tracts of land occupied by old buildings and structures sold to the district council for civilian redevelopment, such as that at Pinewood Village.

[8] This would coincide with the closures of Arborfield Garrison and the School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering (SEME) at Bordon, with all posts at both bases moving to Lyneham in 2015.

This was moved from the wooden huts to a new brick building in 1908 on the far side of Camp Road, being renamed Bordon Post Office.

The site today is still the location of the local Royal Mail depot, and unified army and civilian post office.

Built close to Luisburg barracks of corrugated iron structure at a cost of £1,500, it was "open to all soldiers and sailors wearing the King's uniform regardless of religion.

Its wooden structure covered with a dark green painted corrugated iron roof cost £2,500 to build.

Outside were added: eight grass and two hard tennis courts, a polo field, a hockey pitch and rugby grounds.

[5] After a lease renewal in 1959 for an additional 21 years, in 1977 after the Army School of Transport left the garrison, the number of serving officers making use of the club dwindled rapidly.

With new sporting facilities being built at Havannah barracks, the decision was taken to hand over the management and the lease to a civilian committee, completed in 1980.

Although it made a profit throughout World War I and just after, by the early 1930s attempts by both the NAAFI and YMCA to operate it commercially failed.

The result was a series of improvements, including: conversion of the dance hall to a cinema, a new ballroom and bar in 1955 and a lido in 1963.

In 1977, after the Army School of Transport left the garrison, the Empire Club lease reverted to the district council.

Proposed to be rebuilt as an arts centre, the site is now civilian domestic housing, and forms part of Pinewood Village.

Known as the "Mississippi Steamboat" due to its shape and huge singular steel chimney, it is being replaced by a new centre to be located on Budds Lane.

From 1920 the station was equipped with motorised Thornycroft fire engine, while the building also housed a section of the Royal Military Police.

In February 1921, St. George's Garrison Church was erected in Budds Lane, also known as the Tin Tabernacle due to its corrugated iron shell on wooden framed construction.

Initially this was within a marque set-up on St Lucia barracks square, which then moved to a wooden hut on Kildare Close.

In 1919, parishioners converted an allocated former wooden canteen opposite Martinique House, which became Sacred Heart Church.

The sole non-military civilian burial is the grave of Mrs Alice Emily Chandler, who lived in the former stable house of the camps fire station, killed with a Canadian officer and two NCOs by a Luftwaffe bomb on 16 August 1940.

From the start of World War II, it was used as the local divisional headquarters, until that was moved in November 1940 to Batts Hall, Frensham.

At the start of 1952 it became the Central Volunteer Headquarters (CVHQ) of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, until they moved to Louisburg Barracks in 1979.

Memorial to those of the Canadian Army who served at Bordon in both world wars
The former fire station, latterly an RAF facility, disused since 2005
The former RA institute, now the garrison Church of St George
Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church, Bordon, built 1990
The chapel and graveyard at Bordon Military Cemetery