barrack – Frontline Ulster

Prefabricated Military Accommodation Part I – Early 20th Century

Original Research

The image above is a 1918 photograph of a Dechets barrack hut constructed by the Tarrant Company in France utilising recycled wood from boxes and crates (IWM Q6769 A hut made of old boxes and crates by women carpenters working at the Tarrant Hut Workshops, June 1918). The purpose of… Read More »Prefabricated Military Accommodation Part I – Early 20th Century

Randalstown Camp

First World War, Northern Ireland, Original Research

Dissected by the M22 motorway at Randalstown, an army camp capable of housing more than 5,000 British and Irish soldiers in preparation for the trenches of France once sat, with little trace remaining today. With 65 million untrained men called up to fight in WW1, a problem arose in how… Read More »Randalstown Camp