Pembroke Army Garrison

Pembroke Garrison
Pembroke, Malta
Coordinates35°55′30″N 14°28′30″E / 35.92500°N 14.47500°E / 35.92500; 14.47500
TypeFortifications, Barracks, military families' quarters and Wartime Military Hospitals in WW1 and WW2
HeightLow rise
Site information
OwnerGovernment of Malta
Controlled byPembroke Town Council
ConditionLargely intact with some derelict buildings
Site history
Built1862 with several development phases up til 1941
Built byBritish Empire
In use1869–1977
MaterialsLimestone
Battles/warsLogistic and medical support to World War I and the Siege of Malta (World War II)

Pembroke Garrison is a dispersed collection of former British Army barracks built in the vicinity of Fort Pembroke,[1] northern Malta.

History

Pembroke Garrison developed around a Victorian fortification (Fort Pembroke), a gun emplacement, a barracks, a tented musketry camp, rifle ranges and training areas.[2] St George's Barracks[3] was built first, followed by Fort Pembroke, then St Andrew's Barracks and finally St Patrick's Barracks; built by the British in four main building phases 19th and 20th centuries.[4] Part of the garrison (St Andrew's Barracks) was used as a military hospital during the First World War;[5] during the war Malta's military hospitals and convalescent camps, particularly those at Pembroke, dealt with over 135,000 sick and wounded, most of whom were casualties of the Gallipoli and Salonika campaigns.[6] It remained in use by the British military until 1977.[7] St Patrick's Barracks was not constructed until World War Two.[8]

Today the former British garrison sits inside the Pembroke Local Council administrative area (shown in red).

Army units based at Pembroke Garrison between 1954 and 1967 would have been subordinate to Headquarters Malta and Libya.[9]

At the height of its occupancy the British garrison at Pembroke included St George's,[10] St Patrick's[11] and St Andrew's Barracks,[12] places of worship,[13] firing ranges and Fort Pembroke itself; as well as a military repair base, a medical centre, a military cemetery,[14] a garrison school[15] and other soldier and family welfare facilities (i.e. a NAAFI shop, military post office and beach club (the 'Robb Lido' along the northern edge of St George's Bay[16]) and regimental messes).

In May 1940 naval and army families living on the island were moved to Pembroke Garrison (into St George's and St Andrew's Barracks).[17] Once St Patrick's barracks were constructed in 1941 Pembroke Garrison would be a critical medical support base for the island.[18]

St Patrick's Barracks in the background, it is now a girls secondary school.
The entrance to Fort Pembroke, now housing the Verdala International School.
The now derelict Australia Hall at St Andrew's Barracks, built as a theatre and cinema after World War I.
The Pembroke Ranges looking out to sea; the ranges are still being used by the Maltese Government, but this is already ear-marked as a unique conservation area.

British Army and Royal Marines units based at Pembroke Garrison

This is not an exhaustive list of the British Army and Royal Marines (RM) units that occupied the Pembroke Garrison, but it represents those that are recorded:

St Georges Barracks - constructed between 1859 and 1862
St Andrew's Barracks - not occupied until April 1905[29]
  • 4th Battalion the Rifle Brigade - 1908
  • 39 General Hospital RAMC - arrived from UK in 1941[30]
  • 2nd Battalion The King's Own Malta Regiment, acting as a POW guard force at No1 (Malta) Prisoner of War Camp at Pembroke
  • 45 Commando RM - 1952 Arrived from Malaya[31]
  • 40 Commando RM - 1957[32]
  • 1st Battalion the Royal Sussex Regiment - 1963–1965
  • 1st Battalion the Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) - 1965–1967
  • 41 Commando RM - 1977[33]
St Paul's Hutments
  • Sick Soldiers' Hospital and Convalescent Camp[34]
  • 53 Command Workshops REME - present during WW2 and up to the 1970s[35]
St Patrick's Barracks - constructed in 1941

Although the Pembroke Garrison was nominally an Army facility able to house three infantry battalions, it is clear that the Royal Marines had a long post-war association with Pembroke.

Transfer of ownership to the Maltese Government

The bulk of the garrison's sites were decommissioned and handed to the Government of Malta in 1977. The barracks and their environs are now divided into a thriving community of Pembroke made up public and private housing; and a number of notable colleges and schools, many of them located in re-purposed original British Army barrack blocks.[40]

The limestone karst countryside around promotes a unique ecology called garigue which the local authorities are keen to promote as a visitor attraction, along with the military heritage.[41]

Legacy Pembroke site reuse noted
  • St George's Barracks (part of) - Institute of Tourism Studies.[42]
  • Fort Pembroke and St Andrew's Barracks (part of) - the Verdala International School Malta.[43]
  • Pembroke Battery site - all but one emplacement redeveloped as housing.
  • St Andrews Barracks (part of) - Pembroke Local Council[44]
  • St Andrew's Barracks (part of i.e. Block A, Alamein Road) - Middlesex University Malta[45]
  • St Andrew's Barracks (part of i.e. Block D, Giorgio Mitrovich Street) - STC training college.[46]
  • St Andrew's Barracks (part of) - St Michael's School.[47]
  • St Andrew's Barracks (part of) - Sprachcaffe residential language school[48]
  • St Andrew's Garrison School and the barrack's sports pitches - The National Sports School[49]
  • St Patrick's Barracks (part of) - St Clare College.[50]

St George's Barracks (the oldest of Pembroke Garrison's unit location) has not survived intact (as did St Andrew's and St Patrick's) and this probably reflects the fact that after British withdrawal from Malta there was not the imperative and funds that there is now to preserve and use heritage imperial building stock. Australia Hall,[51] the former REME workshops and the White Rocks Officers' Quarters[52] areas are still in need of development and restoration.

See also

References

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  2. ^ "Pembroke Heritage Project - Visitors' Site Guide". Issuu. 26 May 2014. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
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  19. ^ "Loyal North Lancashire Regiment". www.maltaramc.com. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
  20. ^ BMJ, Military Health (September 1909). "AN OUTBREAK OF SIMPLE CONTINUED FEVER ASSUMING EPIDEMIC FORM AMONGST NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND MEN OF C COMPANY, 4TH BATTALION RIFLE BRIGADE" (PDF). BMJ Military Health. 13 (3): 252–258. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
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  24. ^ Felton, Mark (2013). China Station: The British Military in the Middle Kingdom, 1839–1997. Pen and Sword. ISBN 978-1-4738-2960-2. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
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  43. ^ "Verdala International School Malta - VIS Malta". www.verdala.org. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
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