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35-797: DMS Whittington , otherwise known as Defence Medical Services Whittington (formerly Whittington Barracks ), is a military base in Whittington, Staffordshire , near Lichfield in England. It is home to the Staffordshire Regiment Museum , the Headquarters of the Surgeon General and subordinate medical headquarters, and the location of the Defence Medical Academy. The barracks were constructed on Whittington Heath. The heath had been

70-624: A central place next to the Kurpark. Before the Holocaust , there had been an on-and-off Jewish presence in Bad Nauheim since around 1303. At that time, nearly 400 Jews lived in the town, making up nearly 3% of the population. On Kristallnacht , the schoolhouse was desecrated and ransacked as well as Jewish stores, businesses and the synagogue. Many Jews were taken that night to concentration camps. Some were let out. Of those let out, many were rearrested. By

105-609: A command complex in nearby Langenhain-Ziegenberg called Adlerhorst , "the Eagle's Nest" (not to be confused with Kehlsteinhaus of Obersalzberg, which was never referred to as "the Eagle's Nest" by the Nazis). On 29 March 1945 Bad Nauheim was occupied by troops from the Third Army . It was used as a residential area for American occupation forces after World War II . Despite its proximity to Frankfurt am Main and Hitler's command complex, Bad Nauheim

140-586: A major restoration of Whittington Old Hall , in the late 19th century. The Levett family produced three vicars of Whittington, this was due to the fact that Theophilus Levett purchased the advowson of Whittington church from John Cooper of Aldridge in 1735. The 'right of advowson' was the archaic right to nominate the position of parish priest. Rev. Richard Levett served as vicar from 1743 to 1751. His son, also Rev. Richard Levett, served as vicar of Whittington from 1795 to 1796 and Rev. Thomas Levett served for forty years, from 1796 to 1836. There are memorials to

175-519: A school for poor children of the village. Funds were augmented when the Reverend Richard Levett died in 1802, leaving a legacy and in 1864, a handsome gothic building for a girls' and infants' school was built by Lieut.-Col. Richard Dyott . Village children continued to be educated here until 1968 when a new school was built in Common Lane. During the 18th century Whittington Heath was

210-601: Is a type of spa bath through which carbon dioxide is bubbled. This bath was one of several types of hydrotherapy used at the Battle Creek Sanitarium and it was also used at the Maurice Bathhouse in Bathhouse Row in the early 1900s during the heyday of hydrotherapy. The Konitzky Foundation , a charitable foundation and hospital for those without economic means, was founded in 1896 and its building occupies

245-466: Is a village and civil parish which lies approximately 3 miles south east of Lichfield , in the Lichfield district of Staffordshire , England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 2,591, increasing to 2,603 at the 2011 Census. The parish council is a joint one with Fisherwick . The Coventry Canal borders the village to the north and east. The place name of Whittington derives from

280-518: The Army Medical Services , Royal Navy Medical Branch and Royal Air Force Medical Branch . A second phase at the barracks – now renamed Defence Medical Services Whittington – include new training facilities, a new learning centre, a new lecture theatre, new messes for officers, warrant officers and NCOs – and a new junior ranks dining and leisure facility. In 2014 the Duchess of Cornwall visited

315-606: The Childers Reforms these regiments amalgamated to form the South Staffordshire Regiment with its depot at the barracks in 1881. They were also intended to be the depot of the 64th (2nd Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot and the 98th (Prince of Wales's) Regiment of Foot which under the same reforms amalgamated to form the North Staffordshire Regiment also in 1881. In 1895 the last race meeting

350-552: The Old English for an estate associated with a man called Hwīta. Hwīta was an Anglo-Saxon personal name meaning 'white', given to someone with fair hair or pale complexion. Whittington formed part of the Bishop of Lichfield 's great manorial estate, which covered much of south-east Staffordshire. Known as the Manor of Longdon, it had been created for the bishop of Lichfield from the time of

385-637: The Royal Signals and Royal Engineers , from 2002 until 2008 when Major General Andrew Farquhar CBE, General Officer Commanding the Army's 5th Infantry Division , inspected the recruits and took the salute before the Army Training Regiment's flag was lowered for the last time. In 2007 Whittington Barracks became the Regimental Headquarters of the newly formed Mercian Regiment . In July 2008

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420-591: The Second World War the barracks was occupied by the United States Army and in August 1942 was designated as the 10th US Army Replacement Depot . Replacement depots, known by troops as "repple depples", temporarily housed reserves or replacements for front-line formations, including soldiers who had been discharged from medical care for return to active service. The depot was also used as a military prison . Under

455-728: The 16th century were the Clerkson family, whose female heir married into the Everard family. By the 17th century the Babington family owned large tracts of land in the area and built a grand mansion at nearby Packington Hall which passed by marriage to the Levett family . The Dyott family who were major land owners in the village in the 18th and 19th centuries, lived at nearby Freeford Hall . In 1741, Sarah Neal left her house and croft in Whittington to start

490-506: The First and Second World Wars. Bad Nauheim As of 2020, Bad Nauheim has a population of 32,493. The town is approximately 35 kilometres (22 mi) north of Frankfurt am Main , on the east edge of the Taunus mountain range. It is a world-famous resort, noted for its salt springs, which are used to treat heart and nerve diseases. A Nauheim (or "effervescent") bath, named after Bad Nauheim,

525-894: The JMC now at Whittington comprise the defence medical group and the JMC HQ previously at Fort Blockhouse , Gosport , Hampshire, the Director of Healthcare previously based in Whitehall, the Defence Dental Service previously located at RAF Halton , Buckinghamshire, and the Defence Postgraduate Medical Dean, previously located in Birmingham at the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine at Selly Oak Hospital . The single service medical heads,

560-714: The Labour Government set in motion the centralisation of all planning and training of the Defence Medical Services at Whittington Barracks. The relocation of the Headquarters of the Surgeon-General and major components of the Joint Medical Command (JMC) was completed. A new HQ, named Coltman House, has been built and is fully occupied. Alongside the Headquarters of the Surgeon-General, the elements of

595-686: The Levetts in St Giles Church. Large landowners, the family also established charitable gifts towards the Whittington Free School. A subsequent rector of Whittington was Hon. Rev. George Barrington Legge, son of William Legge, 4th Earl of Dartmouth , who was married to the daughter of John Levett of Wychnor Park . The co-founder of Marks & Spencer plc, Thomas Spencer , is buried at St Giles Church, Whittington. The churchyard also contains Commonwealth war graves of 47 service personnel of

630-516: The Saxons, they remained the lord of the manor until 1546 when the bishop was forced to surrender it to Sir William Paget , one of Henry VIII 's principal Secretaries of State, who was given vast tracts of land in Staffordshire as a reward for his service. Whittington Old Hall is an ancient medieval manor house, it is not known exactly when the original Hall was built, but it is highly likely that

665-536: The building of Whittington Barracks . Construction of the barracks for the depots of the two regiments and for a militia battalion (of which there were four in the county) started on Whittington Heath in 1877. 1881 was the date recorded as the formal handing over of the newly built barracks to the military. The Lichfield Races are remembered in the names of pubs called the Horse & Jockey and in Lichfield, The Scales which

700-494: The command of Lieutenant Colonel James A. Kilian, a native of Highland Park, Illinois , and Major Richard E. Lobuono, the Provost Marshal , the depot became "infamous" for its regime of brutality and the " cruel and unusual punishments of American soldiers imprisoned there." Prisoners were beaten with clubs, forced to carry out vigorous physical exercise for seven hours daily, and given only five minutes to eat meals. When notice

735-458: The early Tudor builders retained the old foundations of the medieval great hall with screen porch and cellars and erected a half-timbered mansion. In the Elizabethan era , the whole of the south front with a portion of the entrance front were entirely re-clad with brick and stonework, complete with striking bays and stone mullioned windows. It is a Grade II* listed building . The mesne-lords in

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770-584: The end of the Holocaust, there were just three Jews remaining in Bad Nauheim. For the most part, those who were not murdered had left the country. The Grand Hotel in Bad Nauheim was also the location of the Gestapo-led internment of around 115 Americans who were working in the U.S. Embassy in Berlin in December 1941. The group would leave Bad Nauheim on 12 May 1942. In addition, during World War II , Adolf Hitler had

805-504: The heath for the building of a barracks. Construction started in 1877 and the formal handing over of the newly built barracks to the military was recorded in 1881. Their creation took place as part of the Cardwell Reforms which encouraged the localisation of British military forces. The barracks were intended to be the depot of the 38th (1st Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot and 80th Regiment of Foot (Staffordshire Volunteers) . Under

840-555: The old Vicarage, it has since grown to become a major institution for palliative care in the Midlands . The church of St Giles was built in the 13th century using sandstone quarried from Hopwas Hayes wood. It was destroyed by fire in 1760, and was rebuilt largely in brick in the Georgian style. The church contains memorial panelling for Samuel Lipscomb Seckham (1827–1900), architect and High Sheriff of Staffordshire , who carried out

875-636: The site of the Lichfield Races, one of the largest and well attended horse racing meetings in the Midlands. A grandstand was erected in 1773 near the Lichfield- Tamworth Road, however, by the 19th century the popularity of the races dwindled, and military use of the heath grew. Under the Cardwell Reforms of the army, the War Office approached the Marquess of Anglesey in 1875 to buy the heath for

910-423: The site of the Lichfield races which had moved from Fradley in 1702. During the 18th century they were one of the largest and well attended race meetings in the Midlands and in 1773 a grandstand was erected near the Lichfield- Tamworth Road. However, during the 19th century the popularity of the races dwindled, and military use of the heath grew. The War Office approached the Marquess of Anglesey in 1875 to buy

945-615: The site to commemorate the relocation of the Defence Medical Services Training Group from Keogh Barracks , Mytchett , Surrey, to Whittington Barracks. Grade II listed buildings at the barracks are: the keep, the garrison church and the separate World War I war memorials to the North and South Staffordshire Regiments . The current units stationed at DMS Whittington include: Defence Medical Services Infantry Whittington, Staffordshire Whittington

980-523: The town include Jamsetji Tata , founder of the Tata Group conglomerate company (he died in Bad Nauheim on 19 May 1904 at the age of 82), Irish novelist and Catholic priest Patrick Sheehan (who holidayed at the Hotel Augusta Victoria in Bad Nauheim from 6–23 September 1904), Franklin D. Roosevelt (as a boy, FDR had been taken for several extended visits to Bad Nauheim where his father underwent

1015-527: The water cure for his heart condition), the Saudi Arabian football team during the 2006 FIFA World Cup , George S. Patton (who celebrated his sixtieth birthday in the grand ballroom of the Grand Hotel), and Albert Kesselring , a Nazi general who died there in 1960. The novel The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford (published 1915) is set in part at Bad Nauheim. The internment of American journalists at

1050-522: Was held after the War Office declared it was "undesirable to hold a race meeting at the gate of the barracks." The Lichfield races are remembered in the names of pubs in Freeford called the Horse & Jockey and in Lichfield, The Scales which was where jockeys were "weighed in". The old grandstand became a soldiers home before it was purchased in 1957 by Whittington Heath Golf Course as its clubhouse. During

1085-463: Was received of official inspections by visiting officers, prisoners thought likely to make complaints or with visible injuries were temporarily removed from the camp. In 1946 a court martial was convened at Grosvenor Square , London, to inquire into allegations that nine guards and two officers had ill-treated prisoners at Whittington. The court martial took ten months to reach its conclusion and grew to include Kilian and Lobuono. Sergeant Judson Smith

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1120-626: Was reprimanded and fined $ 500. The barracks, which went on to become the regional centre for infantry training as the Mercian Brigade Depot in 1960, also became home to the Staffordshire Regiment Museum in 1963 and the depot of the Prince of Wales' Division in 1968. The barracks remained the home of the Army Training Regiment , Lichfield, which trained new recruits on their Phase 1 Common Military Training (i.e. becoming soldiers) from

1155-470: Was sentenced to three years hard labour and a dishonorable discharge and other enlisted men received prison sentences of lesser length. Lieutenant Granville Cubage, accused of ordering the punishments, pleaded that he was following orders from superior officers; he was fined $ 250 and reprimanded. In September 1946, at a court martial convened at Bad Nauheim , Germany, Lobuono was officially reprimanded and fined $ 250 (approximately one month's pay), and Kilian

1190-503: Was totally spared from Allied bombing. American occupants from that time were told that President Roosevelt had loved the town so much from his days there that he ordered it spared. Elvis Presley lived in Bad Nauheim from 1958 to 1960 while in the U.S. Army . At the time, he was assigned to the 1st Medium Tank Battalion, 32d Armor , 3d Armored Division , at Ray Barracks near Friedberg . Since 2002, Bad Nauheim has hosted an annual Elvis festival. Other famous people who have stayed in

1225-400: Was where jockeys were "weighed in". The old grandstand became a soldiers home before it was purchased in 1957 by Whittington Heath Golf Course as its clubhouse. In the late 1970s the vicar of Whittington, Reverend Paul Brothwell became concerned about the quality of care available in local hospitals to patients with terminal illnesses. St Giles Hospice was established in 1983 on the site of

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