RMPA LONDON BRANCH
We meet at 8pm on the third Saturday of each month in: London District Warrant Officers' & Sergeants' Mess, Wellington Barracks. (Please report to Guard Room at Petty France entrance, 200m from St James's Park tube station.)
Milestones in Royal Military Police History
Military Police Training Centres:
| 1897-1920 | Aldershot, Hampshire |
| 1920-1947 | Ash Vale, Surrey |
| 1947-1964 | Inkerman Barracks, Woking, Surrey |
| 1964-2005 | Roussillon Barracks, Chichester, Sussex |
| 2005- | Southwick Park, Portsmouth, Hampshire |
| 1511 | Sir Henry Guylford appointed Provost Marshal by Henry VIII |
1822 |
Cavalry Staff Corps formed under the command of Lt-Col George Scovell |
1854 |
Crimean War: Formation of Mounted Staff Corps |
1855 |
Military Mounted Police formed to police new garrison town of Aldershot |
1882 |
Military Foot Police formed in Egypt Battle of Tel-el-Kebir |
1914-18 |
First World War |
1915 |
Battle Neuve Chappell: traffic control |
1916 |
Battle of the Somme: duty under fire |
1922 |
MMP & MFP amalgamated into Corps of Military Police |
1939-45 |
Second World War |
1940 |
Evacuation of British Army at Dunkirk |
1942 |
Battles of El Alamein |
1944 |
Normandy Landings and Operation Market Garden |
1947 |
Formation of Corps of Royal Military Police (RMP) by Royal Warrant |
1945-66 |
Germany & Austria, Malaya, Suez, Aden, Cyprus |
1966-present |
Northern Ireland, Falkland Islands, Kuwait, Balkans, Iraq, Afghanistan |
1992 |
Formation of Adjutant General's Corps |
