Updated 26 September 2024

Landkreis Uelzen was the responsibility of the following higher formations:
Second Army 3 May 45
43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division 8 May 45
Guards Division 4 Jun 46
5th Infantry Division 6 Jul 46
Hamburg District 5 Dec 46

Requisitioned civilian accommodation

HQ 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division 1945 (1)
43rd Reconnaissance Regiment RAC 1945 (2)
90th (Middlesex) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA 1945 (3)
272 Battery – 284 Battery – 285 Battery
HQ 214th Infantry Brigade 1945(4)
2nd Battalion Devonshire Regiment 1946 (5)

(1) arrived from Bremen-Osterholz 8 May 45 – Lüneburger Straße Uelzen – Am Schildenkamp Ebstorf north-west of Uelzen 19 May 45 – moved to Celle 21 May 45
(2) arrived from Hanstedt south-west of Brermervörde 8 May 45 – Rieste north-west of Uelzen – Allenbostel north-west of Uelzen 20 May 45 – Oldendorf north of Celle 25 May 45
(3) arrived from Osnabrück 9 May 45 – area Uelzen – moved to Tötensen south-east of Hamburg-Harburg 11 May 45
(4) arrived from Lüdersburg north-east of Lüneburg 30 May 45 – Fischerhof Uelzen – moved to Lüneberg 7 Sep 45
(5) arrived from Wolfenbüttel south of Braunschweig 5 Jun 46 – area Uelzen – moved to Lüneberg less one company 6 Jul 46

Batteries/Companies were at various locations

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

Part II

Uelzen is situated in Lower Saxony approximately 57 km north-east of Celle and 41km south of Lüneberg and, until April 1945, was the site of a Concentration Camp, a sub-camp of Neuengamme.

The town was in the line of advance from Celle to Lüneberg, being taken and occupied on about the 17th/18th April 1945 by elements of 227 (Highland) Brigade. Research has shown that one of these elements was the 4th (Tank) Bn Coldstream Guards who moved in from Celle before moving on to Lüneberg. The 1st Bn Middlesex Regiment is also thought to have been there at about the same time, before advancing to Lüneberg.