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61: 29: 409: 383: 88:, the term was used for the whole headquarters building of a military reserve unit, which usually incorporated such a hall. Many of these drill halls were built through public subscriptions in order to support the local 154:
was built for the 2nd Volunteer Battalion Norfolk Regiment in 1867. Other drill halls were converted from extant buildings, including the now demolished St Nicholas Drill Hall in
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Osborne, Mike, 2006. Always Ready: The Drill Halls of Britain's Volunteer Forces, Partizan Press, Essex.
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estimating that around 1,500 were extant in 2015. Fifteen purpose built drill halls are
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units are also co-located on the site of modern Army Reserve Centres, for example
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is a place such as a building or a hangar where soldiers practise and perform
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Canadian soldiers undertake weapons training in a drill hall in January 2007.
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Over 1,860 drill halls have been documented in England, with
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The former drill hall of the 5th/6th Battalion, The
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Drill Hall (disambiguation)

Highland Light Infantry
Garnethill
Glasgow
52nd Lowland Volunteers
Haldane Building
Glasgow School of Art

military drills
Commonwealth
Volunteer Force
Territorial Army
gymnasium
motor transport
armoury
NCOs
Messes
Officer Training Corps
Army Cadet Force
Air Training Corps
Blackheath drill hall
Historic England
Grade II listed
National Heritage List for England
Great Yarmouth
King's Lynn
Norfolk
National Guard Armory
List of drill halls in Merseyside

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