Updated 6 September 2024
Original Name – Flak Kaserne
Home to:
3rd Medium Regiment RA 1947
6/10 Medium Battery – 2/11 Medium Battery – 6/11 Medium Battery
15th Medium Regiment RA 1947-1948
7 Medium Battery – 38 Medium Battery
arrived from Bochum west of Dortmund 5 Mar 47 – redesignated 15th Medium Regiment RA 1 Apr 47 – moved to Munsterlager 10 Mar 48
More to follow
Source: 21st Army Group later British Army of the Rhine to Mar 49
Part II
Situated just outside Rendsberg on an original main road running north, It has been home to many units over the years as can be seen below. Further information on this camp would be kindly welcome.
British
70 + 71 MTLO RAF 1945 – 1946
23rd Field Ambulance 1947
15th Medium Regiment RA 1947 – 1948
3rd Medium Regiment RA 1947 – 1948
3rd King’s Own Hussars Spring 1948 (1)
Norwegian
Norwegian Army (Tyskland Brigade) 1948 – 1949
? 1949 – 1954
German
Army Air Defense School (Heeresflugabwehrschule) 1956 – present.
Rudel Kaserne 1956 – 2000
Feldwebel Schmidt Kaserne 2000 – present.
(1) Leaving for Lübeck in the same year. 3 RTR may also have been in the area at the same time.
As can be seen from the air. Very impressive
Men of a Norwegian Medical Company in Kingsway Barracks, Rendsburg