2233 Prisoner of War Camp

Updated 27 August 2024

8th Battalion Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge’s Own) (Machine Gun) 1945-1946 (1)
110th (7th Battalion Dorsetshire) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA 1945 (2)
360 Battery – 361 Battery – 362 Battery
54th (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA (3)
160 Battery – 161 Battery – 162 Battery
356 (Independent) Searchlight Battery (Moonlight) RA 1945 (4)
90th (Middlesex) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA 1945-1946 (5)
272 Battery – 284 Battery – 285 Battery
4 Light Anti-Aircraft/Searchlight Battery RA 1945-1946 (6)
5th Battalion Essex Regiment (7)
392 Battery 98th (Surrey & Sussex Yeomanry Queen Mary’s) Field Regiment RA (8)
5th Battalion Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry (9)

(1) arrived from Rhadereistedt north-east of Bremen 8 May 45 – requisitioned civilian accommodation south-east of the camp – moved to Celle 19 May 45 – returns from Lüchow north-east of Celle 29 Jan 46 – suspended animation 28 Feb 46
(2) arrived from Seedorf south-east of Bremervörde 19 May 45 – moved to Mellendorf south-west of Celle 2 Aug 45
(3) arrived from Lüneburg
20 Jul 45 – moved to Fallersleben west of Wolfsburg 20 Nov 45
(4) arrived from
Lüdersburg north-east of Lüneburg 9 Nov 45 – moved to Aurich 5 Dec 45
(5) arrived from Lüneburg 20 Nov 45 – moved to Wolfsburg 29 Jan 46
(6)
arrived from Esterwegen south-west of Bad Zwischenahn 5 Dec 45 – disbanded 22 Feb 46
(7) arrived from Bleckede north-east of Lüneburg 28 Feb 46 – moved to Lüneburg 2 Apr 46
(8) arrived from Bleckede north-east of Lüneburg 1 Apr 46 – disbanded
(9) arrived from Lüneburg 2 Apr 46 – Yeovil Barracks 6 Jul 46

More to follow
Source: 21st Army Group later British Army of the Rhine to Mar 49