General Depot G-25 The camp was created in 1938. The
US Army arrived at Ashchurch in June 1942 taking it over from the
Royal Army Service Corps, and it became General Depot G-25, the largest ordnance supply depot in the British Isles. The 624th Ordnance Base Automotive Battalion (OBAM) and 622nd OBAM, and likely others, were based at the camp. In August 1942, 3,000 men lived mainly in
"squalid pyramidal bell tents." G-25 was reorganised in August 1943 by Major-General Lee, and became
"something of a model installation... a show place" for visiting dignitaries. Demolitions on the site began in August 2022. In total, the programme will see the demolition of 58 older structures. By 2027, when VSSP is due to complete, the site will have capacity to store 4,000 armoured and soft-skinned vehicles, such as tanks and Land Rovers, in a controlled humidity environment (CHE). The first, and largest at 25,300m2, CHE storage building with capacity to house over 900 Army vehicles was completed in March 2025. A
MAN HX truck was the first vehicle to enter the CHE facility. As of April 2025, six out of a planned 14 new buildings had been built. == St Barbara's Barracks ==