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Thiepval Barracks is in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

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Natural landmarks · Northern Ireland

Thiepval Barracks

Thiepval Barracks in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

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Thiepval Barracks is a place of interest in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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Thiepval Barracks is a British Army barracks and headquarters in Lisburn, County Antrim. It is also the site of the stone frigate HMS Hibernia, Headquarters of the Royal Naval Reserve in Northern Ireland.

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History

The barracks were built in 1940. They are named after the village of Thiepval in northern France, an important site in the Battle of the Somme and site of the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme. From 1954, the barracks contained the operational headquarters of No 31 Belfast Group Royal Observer Corps (ROC) who operated from a protected nuclear bunker on Knox Road within Thiepval Barracks. Converted from a 1940s anti-aircraft operations room (AAOR), the bunker would support over one hundred ROC volunteers and a ten-man United Kingdom Warning and Monitoring Organisation warning team, responsible for the famous four-minute warning in the event of a nuclear strike on the UK. The ROC…

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Coordinates: 54.5241, -6.0516
Established: 1940

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wikidata: Q7784018 (CC0)
wikipedia: Thiepval Barracks (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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