Updated 1 October 2024

Wesendorf was the responsibility of the following higher formations:
43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division 28 May 45
5th Infantry Division 4 Jun 46
Hannover District 15 Jan 48
7th Armoured Division 1 Mar 49

Combermere Barracks formerly Royal Air Force Wesendorf

Home to:
Royal Horse Guards (The Blues) Armoured Car Regiment RAC

arrived from Iserlohn 7 Jan 49 – A Sqn arrived 8 Jun 48 – moved to Wolfenbuttel Nov 50

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

Part II

11 Hussars 1952 – ?
226 Signal Squadron
14 Sig Regt (EW)

It was an outdet used by 14 Sig Regt (EW) used for ELINT work back in the good old days of the cold war! The buildings were obviously railway ones – the tracks could still be seen alongside, and the post was located within a Bundeswehr barracks (I remember the conscripts saluting us whenever we went in). Rumour had it that it was a stop off on the way to Bergen/Belsen and I can certainly attest to strange goings on when I was there – lots of rumours of it being haunted etc – enough to get me wandering around with my SLR thinking there was an intruder!

Jim

Wesendorf was an airfield used by the Luftwaffe and then by the USAF. In the early 1960s 226 Signal Squadron was located in one corner an old building with a concrete ramp and railway lines heading East. 226 Signal Squadron then became 14 Signal Regiment.

Cashnotts