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25-456: The Keep, Dorchester is part of the former county barracks of the 39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot and the 75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot . The barracks were built in about 1880 and housed various regiments as units were amalgamated. It ceased to be used in 1958 and most of the site was redeveloped in the 1960s, but the keep remained in Ministry of Defence hands and is now used as

50-481: A regimental museum . It is a Grade II listed building . The Dorchester Depot Barracks were built between 1877 and 1881 on the site of a Militia barracks, which had been established there little over a decade earlier. Their creation took place as part of the Cardwell Reforms which encouraged the localisation of British military forces. The site included a large parade ground, which was laid out between

75-664: A 2nd battalion was raised. The 1st battalion moved in Naples in January 1806 and to Sicily shortly thereafter. In 1807 a number of regiments had their territorial affiliations shuffled, with the East Middlesex title passing to the 77th Foot and the 39th taking the Dorsetshire title previously held by the 35th (Sussex) Regiment of Foot to become the 39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot . The 2nd battalion deployed to

100-460: A daughter, Lucy and secondly Dorothy, the daughter of Patrick Allen. He had no heir and thus both titles became extinct. His daughter Lucy married Thomas Wharton, 1st Marquess of Wharton who it is generally thought wrote the words of Liliburlero , and despite his notoriously debauched lifestyle, was a dominant force in English politics from the 1690s to his death in 1715. This biography of

125-648: A regimental number based on their precedence: the regiment became the 39th Regiment of Foot . The regiment was posted to India in 1754 and saw action at the Battle of Chandannagar in March 1757 during the Seven Years' War . Under the command of Major Eyre Coote , the regiment played a major part in capturing the fort of Katwa at the Battle of Plassey in June 1757. The regiment returned to Ireland in autumn 1758 and

150-726: A year. The regiment was reformed in Ireland the following year by absorbing the short-lived 104th Regiment of Foot (Royal Manchester Volunteers). The regiment participated in a task force under Major-General John Whyte to capture the Dutch settlements of Demerara , Essequibo , and Berbice in April and May 1796. The regiment moved to Suriname in October 1800 to Barbados in December 1802 and then returned to England in March 1803. In 1803

175-676: The Battle of Vitoria in June 1813 and across the Pyrenees, including the Battle of Sorauren in July 1813. It then pursued the French Army into France and fought at the Battle of Nivelle in November 1813, the Battle of the Nive in December 1813 and the Battle of Orthez in 1814 as well as the Battle of Toulouse in 1814. The battalion was then posted to North America for service in

200-732: The Devonshire Regiment , the Dorset Regiment , the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment , The Dorset Yeomanry, Queen's Own Dorset Yeomanry , The Dorset Militia , The Royal Devon Yeomanry and 94 Field Regiment RA. The collection includes Adolf Hitler 's desk which was taken from the ruins of the Chancellory in Berlin in 1945. The museum occupies the keep of the original barracks. It is a Grade II listed building and

225-580: The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment and Regimental Headquarters were re-located to Wyvern Barracks in Exeter . The site of the barracks was redeveloped; some buildings (including the long soldiers' barracks block on the west side) were demolished, but several others were sold, being taken over by the County Council and the Royal Mail in the 1960s; a tax office was built on the parade ground. Only

250-650: The Peerage of Ireland . A Roman Catholic , he nevertheless took the Whig side in the Glorious Revolution and in 1689 commanded an English regiment in Ireland as the first Colonel of the 39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot . On 15 September 1691 he was killed by a cannonball at the Siege of Limerick . He had married twice: firstly Lucy, the second daughter of George Brydges, 6th Baron Chandos , with whom he had

275-744: The War of 1812 and took part in the Battle of Plattsburgh in September 1814 before returning to England in July 1815. The regiment formed part of the Army of Occupation in France from 1815 to 1818 when it embarked for Ireland. The regiment arrived in the British colony of New South Wales toward the end of 1825 and saw service guarding convicts and establishing settlements at Hobart , Sydney , Swan River Colony and Bathurst , where in 1830 it helped suppress

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300-759: The bushranging insurgency known as the Bathurst Rebellion . The regiment left for India in July 1832. It saw action at various skirmishes in spring 1834 during the Coorg War and at the Battle of Maharajpore in December 1843 during the Gwalior campaign . It embarked for the Crimea in spring 1854 and saw action at the Siege of Sevastopol in winter 1854 before returning to Canada in 1856 and moving on to Bermuda in 1859; it returned to England in 1864 and

325-615: The 39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot amalgamated with the 54th (West Norfolk) Regiment of Foot to form the Dorset Regiment with its depot in the barracks in 1881. During the Second World War the barracks were occupied by 701st Ordnance Light Maintenance Company and the 1st Quartermaster Company of the United States Army . In 1958 the Dorset Regiment amalgamated with the Devonshire Regiment to form

350-536: The Keep (or armoury) and the building now known as the 'little keep' and flanked by brick-built barrack blocks (including separate accommodation for officers and other ranks), the officers' mess, a gymnasium, stores, offices and other ancillary buildings. The barracks became the depot for the 39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot and the 75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot . Following the Childers Reforms ,

375-559: The Peninsula to support General Sir Arthur Wellesley in June 1809 and fought at the Battle of Talavera in July 1809, the Battle of Bussaco in September 1810 and the Siege of Badajoz in May 1811 as well as the Battle of Albuera in May 1811 and the Battle of Arroyo dos Molinos in October 1811. Meanwhile, the 1st battalion deployed to the Peninsula in August 1811 and saw action at

400-611: The garrison. The regiment sailed for Jamaica in 1729 and then returned to Ireland in 1732. The regiment served as marines from March 1744 to September 1746 when it took part in the Raid on Lorient during the War of the Austrian Succession . The regiment then spent another two years serving as marines and then returned to Ireland. On 1 July 1751 a royal warrant was issued which provided that in future regiments would no longer be known by their colonel's name, but would bear

425-402: The ground floor preserves its previous layout. The museum is entered through the ammunition and powder store, and through this is the archway that used to lead to the rest of the barracks. Close to the archway are the guardroom and cells, one of which is equipped as it would have been when it housed prisoners. In the west tower is a rope winding gear to hoist weapons, ammunition and other stores to

450-532: The keep was retained by the Ministry of Defence. In 2016 the Council sold one of the former barrack blocks for conversion into residential properties. Alongside the depot barracks, across Poundbury Road, stood the older Cavalry Barracks (opened in 1795 and later known as Marabout Barracks). Most of that site remains in military use as Dorchester's Army Reserve Centre. The keep is now a regimental museum for

475-582: The previous regiment, by Colonel Richard Coote as Richard Coote's Regiment of Foot in August 1702. The regiment landed at Lisbon in June 1707 for service in the War of the Spanish Succession . It saw action at the Battle of La Gudina in May 1709 and then remained in Portugal until 1713 when it embarked for Gibraltar and then moved to Menorca later in the year. It was posted to Ireland in 1719 and sailed to Gibraltar in 1726 to reinforce

500-477: The regiment amalgamated with the 54th (West Norfolk) Regiment of Foot to form the Dorsetshire Regiment . The battle honours of the regiment were as follows: Colonels of the regiment included: Regimental titles in italics indicate they were disbanded or renumbered before 1881. Adam Loftus, 1st Viscount Lisburne Adam Loftus, 1st Viscount Lisburne (1647 – 15 September 1691)

525-499: The regiment, places where it has been deployed and events in which it has taken part. Above this is the battlements where there are extensive views of the town and surrounding countryside. 39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot The regiment was first raised by Adam Loftus, 1st Viscount Lisburne as Viscount Lisburne's Regiment of Foot in 1689 but was disbanded in 1697. It was re-raised in Ireland , without lineal connection to

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550-405: The upper floors. The first floor is gained by a spiral stair and is now the regimental museum with a display of uniforms, weapons and equipment used by the regiment during its 300-year history. The second floor has a display of campaign and gallantry medals as well as exhibits showing small arms and silverware. The third floor has displays of objects and information on the recent military history of

575-681: Was an Anglo-Irish peer and military commander. He was the second son of Sir Arthur Loftus of Rathfarnham , co. Dublin and Lady Dorothy Boyle, daughter of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork . His paternal grandfather was Adam Loftus . He was Ranger of Phoenix Park and of the King's parks in Ireland and a Master of the Court of Requests . From 1685 he was a member of the Privy Council of Ireland and on 29 January 1686, King James II created him Baron of Rathfarnham and Viscount Lisburne in

600-710: Was engaged in the Great Siege of Gibraltar in 1779 and the following three years. In 1782 the regiment took a county title as the 39th (East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot . The regiment sailed for the West Indies took part in the capture of Martinique in March 1794, the capture of Saint Lucia in April 1794 and the attack on Guadeloupe in June 1794 during the French Revolutionary Wars . The British troops at Guadeloupe were forced to surrender in December 1794 and were held in captivity for over

625-535: Was posted back to India in 1869. As part of the Cardwell Reforms of the 1870s, where single-battalion regiments were linked together to share a single depot and recruiting district in the United Kingdom, the 39th was linked with the 75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot , and assigned to district no. 39 at Dorchester Barracks in Dorchester . On 1 July 1881 the Childers Reforms came into effect and

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