Updated 4 October 2024

Original Name – Colmar Kaserne also Lichtscheid Camp 319

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69th (Caernarvonshire and Denbighshire Yeomanry) Medium Regiment RA 1945 (1)
241 Battery – 242 Battery
2nd Battalion South Wales Borders 1946 (2)
2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards 1946-1947 (3)
1st Battalion (Hallamshire) York and Lancaster Regiment 1947-1948 (4)
Detachment 1st Battalion Manchester Regiment 1948-1950 (5)

(1) arrived from 17 Jun 45 – Wickrathberg south of Möchengladbach – Sagan Kaserne 9 Sep 45
(2) arrived from Solingen-Hochscheid east of Düsseldorf – moved to UK 11 Dec 46
(3) arrived from Berlin 6 Dec 46 – moved to UK 6 Nov 47
(4) arrived from Berlin 6 Nov 47 – moved to Hamburg 29 Jun 48
(5) arrived from UK 2 Jul 48 – moved to Berlin Apr 50

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

Part II

1st Battalion The Suffolk Regiment 1954 – 1956 (2)
3rd Battalion The Royal Green Jackets 1958 – 1962
1st Battalion The King’s Own Royal Border Regiment 1962 – 1964 (3)
1st Bn Grenadier Guards 1964 – 1966 (4)
2nd Bn Grenadier Guards 1966 – 1968 (5)

Closed March 1968

(2) 1st Battalion’s move from Trieste to Wuppertal completed in 1954. In 1956 the Battalion went to Cyprus to combat EOKA terrorists and deal with riots under very different conditions to Malaya.
(3) It is also stated that this regiment was actually in Keighley Barracks from April 1962 – March1963.
(4) Left Cyprus in 1964 for Wuppertal Germany, and returned to the UK in 1966.
(5) Departing for Buller Barracks, Münster in March 1968. The barracks were then handed over to the Germans.