Plumer Barracks was a military installation at

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History

The barracks were built as "Crownhill Barracks" to accommodate regiments in transit for operations overseas in 1891 and expanded with additional barrack blocks towards the end of the

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. They were renamed "Plumer Barracks" after Field Marshal

Lord Plumer Field Marshal Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer, (13 March 1857 – 16 July 1932) was a senior British Army officer of the First World War. After commanding V Corps at the Second Battle of Ypres in April 1915, he took comma ...

in the early 1930s and then used by the

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during the

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. The barracks were demolished in the late 1960s: the site is now occupied by a large office block known as "Plumer House" which initially accommodated the

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but which is now used by Plymouth Community Homes as offices.

References

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