Updated 26 July 2024

Requisitioned civilian accommodation – Bergen

176th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA 1945 (1)
595 Battery – 597 Battery – 599 Battery
4th Battalion Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh’s 1945 (2)

Belsen Concentration Camp after liberation

113th (2nd/5th Durham Light Infantry) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA (3)
368 Battery – 369 Battery – 370 Battery

Lohheide Kaserne north of Belsen Camp

Home to:
113th (2nd/5th Durham Light Infantry) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA 1945 (3)
369 Battery – 370 Battery
633rd (Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment) Infantry Regiment RA 1945 (4)
102 Control Section 1945 (5)
4th Battalion Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh’s) 1945-1946 (2)
BAOR Training Regiment RAC later Centre 1946 (6)

(1) moved to Olpe north-east of Siegen 2 Jun 45
(2) arrived from Celle 4 Jul 45 – moved to Wietze north-west of Celle 15 Jul 45 – returned to Lohheide Kaserne 27 Jul 45 – moved to Fallingbostel 17 Apr 46
(3) RHQ + 368 Battery – Lohheide Kaserne 23 May 45 – moved to Hamburg-Harburg harbour area with all batteries 24 May 45 – Travemünde area north-east of Lübeck 25 May 45
(4) arrived from Fallingbostel 23 May 45 – moved to Grethem south of Walsrode 25 May 45
(5) arrived 24 May 45 – relieved by 35 Pioneer Group 29 May 45
(6) arrived from Pröstener Moor south of Fallingbostel 17 Apr 46 – Caen Barracks 4 Jun 46

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

To qualify as a Regimental Education Instructor in February 1956 I attended a course at the RAEC depot at Hohne. One snowy Sunday morning whilst there, a colleague and I walked to the local village of Bergen and discovered there almost by mistake, the derelict Belsen camp. What an experience: silence, a forbidding eeriness, no birds, no people, just snow, us and memories. UNFORGETTABLE MOMENTS.

23180532 L/Cpl Hallam, 12th Royal Lancers