RM Bickleigh explained

Bickleigh Barracks
Ensign:	RoyalMarineBadge.svg
Ensign Size:	90px
Type:	Royal Marines Base
Map Type:	Devon#UK
Pushpin Map Caption:	Location within Devon
Pushpin Relief:	1
Ownership:	Ministry of Defence
Built:	1940
Used:	1940-Present
Built For:	War Office
Condition:	Operational
Website:	RM Bickleigh - Royal Navy
Occupants:	42 Commando Royal Marines

RM Bickleigh, or Bickleigh Barracks, is a military installation at Bickleigh, South Hams which is currently used by 42 Commando.

History

The barracks were built by A French & Co and completed in early 1940 during the Second World War.^[1] In 1950 the Commando School Royal Marines which had been formed at Achnacarry during the war and which had moved to Gibraltar Barracks at Towyn after the war, relocated to the barracks.^[1] The Commando School moved to Lympstone in February 1960.^[1] ^[2] The barracks became the home of 42 Commando in 1971.^[3]

Notes and References

Web site: Royal Marines History. Marine Society and Sea Cadet Marine Cadet Section. 19 November 2016. 5 July 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160705080815/http://www.acoy.co.uk/RoyalMarinesHistoryTraditionalFactsPrecisPack1.pdf. dead.
Web site: RMITC / CTCRM - Lympstone. Exeter Flotilla. 20 November 2016.
Web site: 100 years of three towns in one. https://archive.today/20150128231419/http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/100-years-towns/story-20383119-detail/story.html. dead. January 28, 2015. Plymouth Herald. 31 December 2013. 28 January 2015.