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HMS Wildfire is the Royal Naval Reserve unit associated with Northwood.
HMS Wildfire is set within the UK’s operational Defence Headquarters at Northwood.
With no salt water within a 50-mile radius, this may seem an unlikely setting for an outpost of the Royal Naval Reserve, however, Reservists from Middlesex, Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire have been flying the White Ensign at Northwood for nearly 65 years.
The RNR has had a presence at Northwood since May 1957 when it was established to support the growing NATO Eastern Atlantic Command.
Commissioned in 1959 as HMS Northwood, this unit was the first Headquarters Unit in the RNR.
In 1988, the unit moved from its old Nissen huts at Northwood Headquarters to Brackenhill House, an Edwardian mansion outside the main gate.
In 2000, it was renamed HMS Wildfire.
In May 2011, as part of the redevelopment of the Northwood site, HMS Wildfire moved back into a refurbished building within the HQ. On 11 June 2011.
HMS Wildfire became affiliated with the Worshipful Company of Firefighters.
Leading Seaman Ryan Scott is named the first Maritime Reservist of the Year following successful mobilisations with Gibraltar Squadron and HMS Tyne. What a way to celebrate 20 years since the unit’s commissioning as HMS Wildfire!
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