Barracks facts for kids

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This article is about the military building. For other uses, see Barrack (disambiguation).

A barrack is a military building where soldiers live and sleep. Barracks can be made stronger with sandbags or with barbed wire fences. Sometimes they are built underground. They have been used for many years by many countries in many wars.

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  • The New Barracks (18thC), Edinburgh Castle

    Late 18th century barracks from the reign of George III, Edinburgh Castle, Scotland

  • Koszary schronowe in Gdańsk

    Barracks in Gdańsk, Poland.

  • Caserne Chanzy

    Barracks of the 117th infantry regiment in Le Mans, France (c.1900).

  • Barracks of Hampton Court Palace

    Barracks at Hampton Court Palace (1689), Greater London; these are Britain's oldest surviving purpose-built barracks.

  • Parade Ground , Fort George - geograph.org.uk - 979337

    Fort George barracks, 1753

  • Stable Block Christchurch Barracks Dorset

    Cavalry barracks, Christchurch, Dorset, 1795: officers' accommodation in the end blocks, ground-floor stables with men's accommodation over.

  • Portsmouth Grammar School seen from the High Street

    Officers' accommodation at Cambridge Infantry Barracks in Portsmouth (1820s)

  • Kempston Barracks - geograph.org.uk - 527339

    Kempston Barracks, built to serve as depot for the Bedfordshire Regiment in 1875 (one of a number of similar barracks established following the Cardwell reforms)

  • Chelsea Barracks - geograph.org.uk - 812156

    Chelsea Barracks, as rebuilt in the 1960s

  • Barracks-sweden

    Barracks housing conscripts of Norrbottens regemente in Boden, Sweden.

  • Homburgerland-bundespolizei002

    German barracks for troops of Bundespolizei (federal police) in Frankfurt, Germany.


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