Updated 29 September 2024
Stadtkreis Viersen was the responsibility of the following higher formations:
53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division 7 Jun 45
2nd Infantry Division 1 Feb 47
Johannistal Provinzial-Heil-Anstalt (Provincial Healing Institution) Johannisstraße, Süchteln north-west of Viersen
HQ 21st Army Group 1945 (1)
HQ GHQ Troops 1945 (2)
2 (Independent) Company 4th Battalion Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (Machine Gun) 1946 (3)
5th Battalion King’s (Liverpool) Regiment 1946 (4)
1st Battalion Border Regiment 1946 (5)
Other requisitioned civilian accommodation
GHQ Liaison Regiment (Phantom) RAC 1945 (6)
HQ 21st Army Group Signals 1945 (7)
609th (Kent) Infantry Regiment RA 1945 (8)
Second Army Defence Company 1945 (9)
25th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA 1945 (10)
82 Battery – 138 Battery – 274 (Northumberland Hussars) Battery
HQ 159th Infantry Brigade 1946 (11)
(1) moved to Bad Oeynhausen 3 Jun 45
(2) moved to Bad Salzuflen 3 Jun 45
(3) arrived from Flensburg 6 Feb 46 – disbanded 8 Apr 46
(4) formerly T-Force – arrived from Gross Nenndorf south-west of Hannover 1 May 46 – advance party arrived 8 Apr 46 – moved to Kempen north-west of Krefeld 15 Jun 46
(5) arrived from Wilhelmshaven 16 Jun 46 – moved to Dortmund 15 Jul 46
(6) School Hindenburgstraße Süchteln north-west of Viersen – moved to Bad Oeynhausen 14 Jun 45
(7) Grefrather Straße Süchteln north-west of Viersen – moved to Bad Oeynhausen 14 Jun 45
(8) Convent Schlageter Alle Süchteln north-west of Viersen – moved to Bad Salzuflen 3 Jun 45
(9) near Rennplatz (Racecourse) Süchteln north-west of Viersen – moved to Bünde 14 Jun 45
(10) arrived from Hamburg via staging area south of Onsabrück – Bismarckstraße Viersen – moved to Krefeld 27 Oct 45
(11) arrived from Flensburg via Münster 6 Feb 46 – Schloss Neersen east of Viersen – moved to Krefeld 14 Feb 46
Squadrons/Batteries/Companies were at various locations
More to follow
Source: 21st Army Group later British Army of the Rhine to Mar 49