PoW Camp 1019 Beaumont Barracks

The PoW Camp was built within the Beaumont (South Cavalry) Barracks in Aldershot. These barracks where demolished some years ago, the entrance has been preserved along with a few buildings and a surrounding wall

Location

Beaumont Community Childcare, Aldershot, Hampshire

Description

Site Visits

March 2019

Material

DSLR Photos
UK Foreign Office Inspection Report

This site is directly adjacent to former PoW Camp 1006 Willems Barracks and is just off the Wellington Roundabout on the A335 in Aldershot.

This site echoes that of 1006 and contains a preserved entrance to the former barracks. In addition, the gate house has been preserved as a school. There is a surrounding wall and large building within this site that have escaped the developers.

Unlike 1006 where commercial properties have been built this former barracks and PoW site now contains a housing estate along with schools.

Camera Images of the site of former PoW Camp 1019 Beaumont Barracks

Extracts from UK Foreign Office Inspection Report from UK National Archives Kew:

FO 1120/183 PoW Camp List 20Feb47 inc PoW Camp 1019

  • Foreign Office File 1120/183 list of POW Camps in the UK as of 20Feb47 as held by the UK National Archives in March 2019