St_Mary's_Street_drill_hall,_Huntingdon

St Mary's Street drill hall, Huntingdon

St Mary's Street drill hall, Huntingdon

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The St Mary's Street drill hall is a former military installation in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.

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History

The building was designed as the headquarters of the 1st Huntingdonshire Rifle Volunteer Corps and completed in the late 19th century.[1] The unit evolved to become the 4th Volunteer Battalion, The Bedfordshire Regiment in 1900.[2] The presence at the drill hall was reduced to a single company, H Company, 5th Battalion, The Bedfordshire Regiment in 1908 but restored to a full battalion when the Huntingdonshire Cyclist Battalion was formed in February 1914.[2] The battalion was mobilised at the drill hall in August 1914 but remained in the United Kingdom throughout the First World War.[3] The battalion was disbanded at the end of the War and the drill hall was subsequently decommissioned and converted for retail use.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    "The Huntingdonshire Cyclist Battalions 1914 - 1919". Porch Museum. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
  2. [2]
    "The Huntingdonshire Battalion". Regiments.org. Archived from the original on 26 December 2005. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
  3. [3]
    James, Brigadier E. A. (2012). British Regiments 1914-1918. Naval and Military Press. ISBN 978-0-906304-03-7.
  4. [4]
    "Huntingdon Sale Rooms". Cyclex. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
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