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Only one barrack was set aside for them ; this was overseen by the female block leader ( Blockführerin ) Franziska Hoengesberg, who came from Essen when it was evacuated.
Bombing damage in the Second World War destroyed the 18th century soldiers ' barrack block, but the officers ' terrace still survives.
The oldest structure within the police station was built in 1864 ; it is a three-storey barrack block constructed adjacent to Victoria Prison.
One barrack block is in use to provide visitor facilities.
A barrack block at the rear had room for 38 men.
After the War the barrack block was demolished and a coastguard tower built on the gun platform.
The foundations of parts of the barrack block and parade ground can be made out.
To the rear of the gun platform was a fortified barrack block.
A further barrack block was later built outside the fort to house additional troops.
Clues to the airfield's original use survive in the barrack block accommodation, each block of which was named after a famous German airman of the First World War, with the airman's bust above the entrance door.
In January 1981, the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) planted a bomb in the Suvla barrack block at RAF Uxbridge.
A view from the east looking across the barrack block with the gun casemnates beyond
A plan of the New Fort Gilkicker showing the original layout of the gun casemates with the barrack block behind
The rear, or gorge, of the fort is closed by a two storey barrack block that was originally occupied by the officers.
The entrance to the fort through the centre of the barrack block opens onto the central parade.
The work included the rebuilding of the magazines, gun emplacements and barrack block.
It was designed to house a large complement of men ( about 220 ) in a crescent-shaped barrack block.
These tunnels lead to the barrack block and caponiers, and past the magazine.
It was sold by the Ministry of Defence in July 2003 to the " Fort Southwick Company Limited ", who intend to convert the barrack block into luxury apartments.
By Christmas 1982, the barrack block, mess room, and meteorological station were reduced to a pile of concrete rubble, leaving only a small hut stocked with emergency supplies and the flagpole, which was last seen flying the Union Flag.
The original Edinburgh Royal Infirmary on Infirmary Street was an imposing building designed by Adam in 1738, although based on a standard Ordnance Board barrack block.
The impressive barrack block which stood behind the facade served as a Category C prison for some years from the 1970s but was demolished in the 1980s and replaced by a modern Category B prison block.

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At that time it was the biggest coherent barrack arrangement of Germany.
She was transferred from Mauthausen to the notorious women's concentration camp at Ravensbruck, located 50 miles from Berlin, where unbeknownst to Gemma at the time, her daughter Yolanda ( whose husband also died in the camps ) and baby grandson were also held for a year in a separate barrack.
In 2010, the remains of a girl thought to be between the ages of 8 and 10 years old, with her hands tied, were uncovered in a shallow pit in what was the barrack room.
Each barrack was home to sixty men sleeping in squeaky metal beds with thin mattresses and not enough blankets in the winter and poor ventilation in the summer.
Khan al-Saboun ( originally a military barrack ) was constructed in the center of the city to control any uprising.
Lübke's status as a one-time political prisoner under the National Socialists stood him in good stead and it was not until 1966 that accusations started to be made by sources in the DDR that he had at the very least been aware of the use of slave labour on his projects ; building plans bearing his signature and containing concentration camp barrack blocks were advanced as evidence of his complicity, but these were dismissed in the West as East German propaganda.
A wooden barrack hut was erected first for the initial testing.
As a result of the relatively high standard of living, and more relaxed travel restrictions than those present in other Eastern Bloc countries, Hungary was generally considered the best country to live in Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War, also expressed in the informal term " the happiest barrack ".
He missed his rite of passage as a 13-year-old because at the time he was a prisoner in the very same barrack, having been deported from his Croatian hometown Osijek to the death camp when he was 10.
It was between here and the final checkpoint of Sperrkreis 3 that von Haeften tossed a second briefcase from the car containing a second bomb which was also intended to explode in the conference barrack.
By the 1890s, a North-West Mounted Police barrack had been instated on Main Street, but it was vacated in 1927.
The lowest was the storage of ammunition and food, the second only has around the wall to revolve, and the middle part of each side has a semicircle protruding barrack to strengthen the defense.
In San Estanislao is the House of Culture and Historical Museum, which was the first Jesuit school, before becoming a barrack for the Marshall López, during the Paraguayan War.
The standard barrack layout was to have a central washing area and a separate room with toilet bowls and a right and left wing for overcrowded sleeping rooms.
The barracks was designed to house 120 troops, split between two barrack blocks.

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The role of Fort George in the defense of Halifax Harbour had evolved by the turn of the 20th century to becoming a command centre for other, more distant harbour defensive works, as well as providing barrack accommodations.
After the assassination of two key members of OUN-M, said to have been committed by members of OUN-B, Bandera and Stetsko on 15 September 1941 were held in the central Berlin prison at Spandau and, in January 1942, transferred to Sachsenhausen concentration camp's special barrack for high profile political prisoners Zellenbau.
Ten barrack blocks designed by A. Gilpin were built around the parade ground in 1925, as was the RAF officers ' hospital and the original Operations Room, controlled by the Fighting Area of Air Defence of Great Britain ( ADGB ).
The English term ‘ barrack ’, on the other hand, derives from the Spanish word for a temporary shelter erected by soldiers on campaign, barraca.
The rear was closed off by a brick wall with a barrack for officers at its centre.
Finally, a column of 360 soldiers, sailors and marines led by Lieutenant Colonel William Drummond would attack the fort once the other assaults were under way, with the objective of capturing the old British barrack buildings.
The explosion caused havoc for both sides, although the Americans in the fort were sheltered from the full force of the explosion by the barrack buildings.
They are still tailored in regimental colours and have become less common with the introduction of Combat Soldier ' 95 camouflaged uniform ( which for the first time serves as both barrack and combat dress ), although they are still worn by the Rifles, Royal Artillery and some cavalry and other infantry regiments.
The camp was divided into five compounds ( A-E ) separated by barbed wire fences, with the POWs housed in 40 wooden barrack huts, each containing 200 men.
Modern-day Vinh Long was part of Long Hồ dinh ( barrack, 營 ) established by the Nguyễn Lords in 1732, comprising the provinces of Ben Tre, Tra Vinh, and parts of Cần Thơ.
It had an open patio, the only entrance to which was a large door located in the southeast corner of the complex, protected by a barrack.
Work for the season lasted only until 11 September, by which time the barrack legs had been secured although not the main structure.
Work began in April 1839 and by early September the completed barrack stood 60 feet ( 18 m ) above the rock.
It was originally entered by two Guthrie rolling bridges and has a barrack block for 172 officers and men, protected by a V-shaped redan.
( 19 years later, McCauley was arrested in Colombia, accused by the Colombian authorities of teaching FARC guerillas in the use of explosives, in particular the " barrack buster ").

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