The Birmingham units of the Territorial Force

Locations of units

Birmingham-based units and the normal location of their headquarters and depots. For the pupose of this page I am using a rough definition of what is considered today’s Birmingham, so have for example included Handsworth and Harborne.

  • 3rd South Midland Brigade Royal Field Artillery: Stoney Lane
  • South Midland (Warwickshire) Royal Garrison Artillery: Metropolitan Works, Saltley (note: the drill hall was at the junction of Saltley Viaduct and Metropolitan Lane)
  • Southern Command Signal Company Royal Engineers: Great Brook Street Barracks
  • 5th Battalion, the Royal Warwickshire Regiment: Thorp Street
  • 6th Battalion, the Royal Warwickshire Regiment: Thorp Street
  • 8th Battalion, the Royal Warwickshire Regiment: Witton Road, Aston
  • 1st South Midland Mounted Brigade Transport and Supply Column, Army Service Corps: Taunton Road, Sparkbrook
  • South Midland Divisional Transport and Supply Column, Army Service Corps: Aston, with Warwickshire Brigade Company at Court Oak House, Harborne**
  • North Midland Mounted Brigade Field Ambulance: 59 Soho Road, Handsworth***
  • 1st South Midland Mounted Brigade Field Ambulance: Great Brook Street Barracks
  • 1st South Midland Field Ambulance: also at Great Brook Street Barracks
  • 1st Southern General Hospital: headquartered also at Great Brook Street Barracks
  • South Midland Clearing Hospital: headquartered also at Great Brook Street Barracks

*The battalion’s B Company was also at the Metropolitain Works in Saltley
**. Newspapers report on the company when it moved into a new drill hall “on the site of the old aquarium at Lower Grounds”: this may be the same as the 8th Royal Warwickshires drill hall which was accessed from Witton Lane. Its Gloucester and Worcester Brigade Company was at Stroud
***Its B Section was at Swan Village, West Bromwich

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