3rd Hants Battery (1st Wessex Brigade) Royal Field Artillery
Hampshire (Fortress) Royal Engineers; No. 6 Electric Light Company
6th Territorial Force Battalion Hampshire Regiment [F Co.]
(References Kelly, 1911)
Kelly, 1911, states: ‘The Connaught Drill Hall, at the top of South street built in 1902 at a cost of £3,500, is utilised by the 6th Territorial Force Battalion Hampshire Regiment [F Co.], for which Portsmouth is the head quarters; it contains a drill hall 80 feet long and 45 feet wide, armoury, officers’ and orderly rooms, and N.C.O. club and men’s recreation rooms.

‘In Walpole road is the head quarters of the 3rd Hants Battery (1st Wessex Brigade) Royal Field Artillery.’ (Kelly, 1911)

‘Hampshire (Fortress) Royal Engineers; No. 6 Electric Light Company, Drill hall, Haslar road.’

Kelly, 1899, records a RE Volunteers Drill Hall at North Cross Street and an Armoury at Market House.

5th Southern General Hospital is also recorded here.

The postcard shows the Connaught Drill Hall, which was demolished in 1971.