A plaque recording the tenure of Inglis Barracks, Mill Hill, by the Middlesex Regiment from 1905 till 1966, was unveiled on the façade of the former Officers’ Mess on 14 August 2013 by Martin Russell, deputy Lord Lieutenant for Barnet at a ceremony attended by the Mayor, Cllr Melvin Cohen, the President of the Middlesex Regimental Association, Col Rex Cain, local councillors John Hart and Sury Khatri and Major Paddy O’Brien, the former DLL, whose sub-committee ensured the retention of the Mess buildings and their curtilage when all else on the barracks site was marked for demolition in order to create new housing.
The plaque also records the British Forces Post Office Service which succeeded the Middlesex Regiment in the barracks.
Messrs Linden Homes, developers of the Millbrook Estate, enthusiastically agreed - at John Hart’s suggestion - to affix the plaque on the Mess wall as a record of the site’s military past. They have also placed plaques on the former site of the Middlesex War Memorial, now relocated opposite St Paul’s Church, the Ridgeway, the old garrison church of the regiment
Col Cain recalled that as a subaltern he had shared a room in the Mess, now converted into flats, and all sold. Tempus fugit he nearly said.