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on 1 April 1993. This itself was formed from a merger of the defunct Headquarters School of Infantry and the Barracks, Warminster (today known as Battlesbury Barracks). All three of these elements merged into the Warminster Training Centre (WTC).
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in 1941: it moved to Warminster in 1945 and was known as the School of Infantry until it was renamed the Land Warfare Centre in 1988. The site, on the northern outskirts of the town, lies under the edge of
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On 1 April 2000, the newly appointed Director General, Training Support Command (Land) (now Director Land Warfare) set up his headquarters within WTC, thereby bringing back to Warminster a two-star
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and has access to the military training areas on the Plain. In 2009, the extent of the Warminster Training Centre site was 95 hectares (230 acres).
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The Combined Arms Training Centre was renamed to Land Warfare Training Centre in June 2000, which was further refined in 2002 to become
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On 4 May 1995, as part of the second phase of Options for Change, the Infantry Support Weapons Wing at
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Soldiers taking part in a Reconnaissance and Armoured Tactics Division final exercise
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Reconnaissance and Armoured Tactics Division (part of The Armour Centre at
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closed and its components moved to WTC as part of the
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Warminster
Waterloo Lines is located in Wiltshire
51°12′43″N 2°09′36″W / 51.212°N 2.160°W / 51.212; -2.160
Ministry of Defence
British Army
Warminster Garrison
Warminster
Field Army
Army HQ
Andover
Battle School
Barnard Castle
County Durham
Salisbury Plain

Warminster
Roman Britain
Battlesbury Barracks
Options for Change
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
Cold War
Netheravon
Infantry Training Centre
Major General
Defence Training Estate
Infantry
Small Arms School Corps
OPFOR
Combined Arms Tactical Trainer
Bovington Camp

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