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'Warwick Camp' was originally the rifle ranges and a training area used by units of the Bermuda Garrison based elsewhere in the colony. Today, the Camp is the home of the Bermuda Regiment. 〔(The Bermuda Regiment: contact page )〕 ==Early history== The base was located on a strip of land obtained during the mid-Nineteenth century by the War Office along the south shore of Warwick, in Bermuda. The army garrison in Bermuda was being re-organised, with the headquarters moving from St. George's to Prospect Camp, near Hamilton. Most of the Regular Army infantry relocated to Prospect Camp, also, leaving the St. George's Garrison largely in the hands of the Royal Regiment of Artillery. Prospect Camp was usefully located in the centre of the colony, and near the capital, but had no area suitable for a rifle range. In January, 1869, F Company of the 61st Foot was moved to Warwick to work on the Military Road (now, the South Shore Road), following which they constructed the rifle ranges at Warwick Camp.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=British Army in Bermuda from 1701 to 1977 )〕 Two companies of the 15th Foot continued working on the road, west of Warwick Camp, and also built a new battery for the coastal artillery at Whale Bay.〔 〔Bermuda From Sail To Steam: The History Of The Island From 1784 to 1901, Dr. Henry Wilkinson, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-215932-1〕 The Camp enclosed Warwick Long Bay and Horseshoe Bay, which, today, are Bermuda's two most popular public beaches, and all the land between. The rifle ranges were placed here, on the south side of the road, and between the beaches. The Camp also included an area to the north of the road where permanent buildings were erected. No barracks were built 'til after the Great War, however, as the Camp had no permanent establishment of its own. Use of the camp was allotted for different periods throughout the year to any, or several, of the army units comprising the military garrison. 〔("A" Company, 1st Battalion, The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry: Prospect Garrison, Devonshire Bermuda: 1954 - 1957. )〕〔(''1st Bn, Royal Berkshire Regiment - A sepia photo of the Officers and NCOs of 'D' Company at Warwick Camp Bermuda in August 1894''. The Wardrobe: Home of the infantry regiments of Berkshire and Wiltshire. )〕 The regular troops used the Camp for riflery and for tactical training, as did the Volunteers/Territorials (part-time soldiers), who used it for annual camps. The part-time units originally had no camps of their own, their sub-units being divided amongst a number of drill halls, or attached to the regular complements of coastal artillery batteries.〔 (''Bermuda Militia Artillery History'', by Jennifer Hind )〕 In addition to the military (''army'') units that used the Camp, the Royal Marines (RM) detachment guarding the Dockyard occasionally trained there, as did RM detachments from ships in the dockyard. During the Great War, the Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps (BVRC) and the Bermuda Militia Artillery were embodied in August 1914, and soon began planning to send contingents of volunteers to the Western Front. The first of these units was raised as a detachment by the BVRC, and embodied at Warwick Camp in December, 1914. Many of its members had enlisted specifically for the Front. The contingent trained full-time at Warwick Camp until it was dispatched to the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment in Europe, arriving on the Western Front in June, 1915. 〔''Defence, Not Defiance: A History Of The Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps'', Jennifer M. Ingham (now Jennifer M. Hind), The Island Press Ltd., Pembroke, Bermuda, ISBN 0-9696517-1-6〕 A second contingent was sent to the Lincolns by the BVRC the following year.〔(The Royal Gazette: B.V.R.C. CONTINGENT. LIST OF VOLUNTEERS FOR THE FRONT. TRAINING IN WARWICK CAMP. March Through Hamilton. A FEW MORE NEEDED FOR COMPANY. Date uncertain. Winter, 1914-1915. )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Warwick Camp (Bermuda)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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