Updated 23 June 2024

Donnerschwee (Flak) Kaserne – there was a proposal to rename as Winnipeg Barracks in September 1946 later Crerar Barracks II*

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68th (West Lancashire) Medium Regiment RA 1945-1946 (1)
233 Medium Battery – 234 Medium Battery
400 (Independent) Searchlight Battery RA 1945 (2)
319 Company (Field Artillery) RASC 1945 (3)
3rd Battalion Stormont Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders 1946 (4)
7th/9th (Highlanders) Battalion Royal Scots 1946 (5)
1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) (6)
3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery 1946-1948 (7)
D Battery – J Battery – M Battery
21st Anti-Tank Regiment RA 1946 (8)
Y Battery – Z Battery – 2 (Minden) Battery – *Q (Sanna’s Post) Battery
10th Anti-Tank Regiment 1947-1948 (8)
X Battery – Y Battery – Z Battery

Danish Infantry Brigade Group units arrived to relieve HQRA 7th Armoured Division 4 March 1948 – unclear which units were in what barracks – moved to Itzehoe in Schleswig-Holstein 1 Mar 1949. 7th Armoured Division/Hannover District Historical Records are incomplete.

Reconnaissance Squadron 11 Jan 48 – 3 Squadron Jutland Dragoons by 24 Sep 48 – relieved by 4 Reconnaissance Squadron Royal Guards Hussars 11 Oct 48
8 Infantry Battalion IX Infantry Regiment by 24 Sep 48

*named after being rebuilt in 1951, there was an earlier barracks, just a small collection of requisitioned civilian buildings to the north-east of Oldenburg – thanks to JPW for his research.

HQ 5th Army Group Royal Artillery (Anti-Aircraft) 1951-1958 (9)
44th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA 1951-1961(10)
46 Battery –153 Battery – 154 Battery
35th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment/Searchlight Regiment RA 1952-1955 (11)
90 Battery – 92 Battery – 99 Battery
72nd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA 1955-1958 (12)
6 Battery – 42 Battery – 206 Battery – 216 Battery
15 Aug 55: 6 Battery – 42 Battery – 91 Battery – 216 Battery
150 AAF Command Battery RA 1956-1958

Handed over to the Bundeswehr

(1) arrived from the Netherlands 26 May 45 – 4th Army Group RA – suspended animation 4 Feb 46
(2) arrived from Esterwegen Camp south-west of Bad Zwischenahn 28 Jun 45 – 4th Army Group RA – disbanded 27 Aug 45
(3) arrived from the Netherlands 18 Jun 45 – 4th Army Group RA – moved to Neuenkirchen south-east of Melle 12 Sep 45 for disbandment 19 Sep 45
(4) arrived from Varel – 2nd/7th Canadian Infantry Brigade – B/C/Support Companies arrived 30 Jan 46 – BHQ + A/D Companies 2 Feb 46 – embarked for UK 20 May 46
(5) arrived from Delmenhorst 17 May 46 – 155th Infantry Brigade – disbanded 1 Aug 46
(6) arrived from Recklinghausen north-west of Dortmund less one company 4 Jun 46 – moved to Delmenhorst east of Oldenburg 16 Jun 46
(7) arrived from Elmshorn south-east of Itzehoe 7 Jul 46 – HQ RA 7th Armoured Division – converted to Self-Propelled 4 Sep 46 – redesignated 3rd Field Regiment Royal Horse Artillery (Self Propelled) 1 May 47 – moved to Caithness Barracks Verden 3 Jan 48
(8) arrived from Maple Leaf Barracks Aurich 16 Aug 46 – HQ RA 7th Armoured Division – *Q (Sanna’s Post) Battery detached – Scarborough Barracks Osnabrück – redesignated 4th Regiment Royal Horse Artillery (Anti-Tank) 9 Oct 46 – redesignated 10th Anti-Tank Regiment 1 Apr 47 – X Battery suspended animation to 31 Dec 47 – Y Battery suspended animation – Z Battery suspended animation to 31 Aug 47 – Hannover District Troops 15 Mar 48 – moved to Ubique Barracks Dortmund 7 Apr 48
(9) arrived from Delmenhorst Sep 51 – 1st (BR) Corps Nov 51 – disbanded Mar 58
(10) arrived from UK Sep 51 – RHQ suspended animation 15 Mar 58 – 153/154 Battery disbanded and 46 Battery to 32nd Field Regiment RA 1 Jan 62
(11) arrived from UK 1952 – moved to St Barbara Barracks Adelheide Jun 55
(12) arrived from Hong Kong Jul 55 – moved to Gale Barracks* Oldenburg and disbanded Mar 58

*new build barracks in the early 1950s to the north-east of the city

More to follow
Sources: 21st Army Group later British Army of the Rhine to 1 Mar 49
British Army Units 1945 on

Named after General Henry Crerar. Canadian born career soldier who ultimately commanded First (Canadian) Army of 21st Army Group, who were involved in the D Day Landings and formed the extreme western/seaward flank of the Allied advance through France/Belgium/Holland finally Northern Germany ending the war on the Friesland Coast in the general area of Emden/Wihemshaven/Oldenburg.

JPW