Updated 17 October 2024

Original Name – SS Panzer Kaserne – Built 1935

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HQ 103rd Anti-Aircraft Brigade 1945 (1)

(1) moved to Wolff’s Factory Bomilitz north-west of Fallingbostel 5 May 45 – relieved by HQRA 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division in Celle 21 May 45

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Source: 21st Army Group later British Army of the Rhine to 1 Mar 49

Part II

Lumsden Barracks named after Lieutenant General Herbert Lumsden CB DSO MC (18971945), one of the “Desert Generals” who commanded X Corps 8th Army in the Second Battle of El Alamein under General Bernard Law Montgomery.

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4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards Jun 1954-Oct 1959 (1)
5th Royal Tank Regiment Nov 1959-Feb 1965 (2)
3rd Royal Tank Regiment 1965-1967 (3)
3rd Royal Tank Regiment 1971-Oct 1976 (4)
16th/5th The Queen’s Royal Lancers 1967-1971 (5)
4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards Oct 1976 to Feb 1981 (6)
The Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales’s Own) Feb 1981-Nov 1988
The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys) 1988-1991 (7)
2nd Royal Tank Regiment 1992-2007 (8)
1st Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers 2007-2009 (9)
3rd Battalion The Mercian Regiment (Staffords) 2009-2014

(1) Details supplied by RDG Museum.
(2) Amalgamated with 8th Royal Tank Regiment 1 Jul 60
(3) Departing for Tidworth.
(4) Arriving in 1971 from Northampton Barracks, Wolfenbüttel.
(5) Leaving for Lisanelly Barracks, Omagh taking over from 17/21st Lancers.
(6) RDG Museum give March 1981 as leaving Lumsden Barracks.
(7) Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 3rd Baronet, OBE served with The Royal Scots Greys during this time.
(8) The Regiment returned to Germany after two years in Catterick as a RAC Training Regiment. They have now left for Tidworth as part of 1 Mech Bde.
(9) Arriving from Trenchard Barracks, Celle.