Robertson Barracks

For the Robertson Barracks, Norfolk, England see Robertson Barracks, Norfolk

Robertson Barracks
Knuckey Lagoon Municipality of Litchfield Northern Territory
Type	Australian Army base
Site information
Owner	Australia
Controlled by	Australia
Site history
Built	1989-2001
Garrison information
Garrison	1st Brigade 1st Aviation Regiment B Coy, 1st Military Police Battalion Joint Movements Control Office – Darwin Joint Logistics Unit (North) United States Pacific Command Marine air-ground combined arms force (4,500)

Robertson Barracks is a major Australian Army base located in the Northern Territory of Australia within the suburb of Holtze in the Municipality of Litchfield about south of the Darwin city centre. The barracks was built during the 1990s. The Barracks is home to the 1st Brigade and the 1st Aviation Regiment. Robertson Barracks has a helicopter airfield, similar to Holsworthy Barracks. The barracks was named after Lieutenant General Sir Horace Robertson, commander of the 1st Armoured Division and 6th Division during the Second World War, and later Commander in Chief British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Japan.

Units

The units currently located on Robertson Barracks are:

1 Brigade units

• 1st Armoured Regiment
• 1st Combat Service Support Battalion
• 1st Combat Signals Regiment
• 1st Combat Engineer Regiment
• 5th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment
• 8th/12th Medium Regiment

External units

• 1st Aviation Regiment
• B Coy, 1st Military Police Battalion
• Joint Movements Control Office – Darwin
• Joint Logistics Unit (North)

Robertson Barracks is reported to be a future site of a United States Pacific Command, Marine Rotational Force-Darwin (MRF-D), and its current capacity of 4,500 troops will be upgraded in the near future. Currently, the size and the accessibility of key facilities in Darwin follows closely with other US deployment sites around the globe.

External links

• ADF official site.