LIVES OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE
The E.J. Boys Archive

Last modified 9 October 2026

Added 20.4.2014.

IN PROGRESS - NOT FOR PUBLICATION

CAVALRY BARRACKS IN THE BRITISH ISLES

Preston Barracks (Brighton) c.1850.

[Source: Roy Grant. For further information see here (accessed 20.4.15).]

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The following is a list of places where Light Brigade regiments were [housed] and/or where enlistment of soldiers took place. [Discharge?].

ENGLAND

• Aldershot [enlistment centre only?]

• Bath

• Birmingham

• Brighton (Preston Barracks)

• Bristol: Horfield [enlistment centre only?]

• Canterbury

• Chester

• Chichester [enlistment centre only?]

• Cirencester [enlistment centre only?]

• Cole ? [enlistment centre only?]

• Coventry [enlistment centre only?]

• Daventry [enlistment centre only?]

• Dorchester

• Exeter [Higher Barracks, Howell Rd?]

• Gloucester [enlistment centre only?]

• Guildford

• Halifax [enlistment centre only?]

• Hampton Court

• Heston = Hounslow ?

• Ipswich

• Lancaster [enlistment centre only?]

• Leeds

• Leicester [enlistment centre only?]

• Liverpool

• London: Chelsea [enlistment centre only?]

• London [Westminster = Hyde Park? Other?]

• London: Queen's Square, London [enlistment centre only?]

• Maidstone

• Manchester: Hulme

• Manchester: Salford [enlistment centre only?]

• Mansfield [enlistment centre only?]

• Nottingham

• Norwich: Pockthorpe

• Norwich: Costessey [enlistment centre only?]

• Prescot [enlistment centre only?]

• Preston (Brighton)

• Reading [enlistment centre only?]

• Salford [enlistment centre only?]

• Shrewsbury

• Sheffield [enlistment centre only?]

• Topsham (near Exeter)

• Warrington [enlistment centre only?]

• Warwick [enlistment centre only?]

• Wells

• Woolwich [enlistment centre only?]

• York: Fulford Road

IRELAND

• Armagh [enlistment centre only?]

• Athlone [enlistment centre only?]

• Ballincollig [enlistment centre only?]

• Belfast [enlistment centre only?]

• Cahir, Tipperary

• Carlow

• Clonmell [enlistment centre only?]

• Cork

• Dublin

• Dundalk

• Longford

• Newbridge

SCOTLAND

• Edinburgh: Piershill

• Glasgow