Updated 18 June 2024

Requisitioned civilian accommodation including Altenbruch, Altenwalde and Duhnen

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HQ Guards Armoured Division 1945 (1)
2nd Household Cavalry Regiment 1945 (2)
HQ Royal Artillery Guards Armoured Division 1945 (3)
94th (8th Battalion King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment 1945 (4)
32nd Infantry Brigade (Guards) 1945 (5)
2nd Battalion Scots Guards 1945 (8)
2nd Armoured Reconnaissance Battalion Welsh Guards 1945 (9)
1 (Independent) Company 4th Royal Northumberland Fusiliers 1945 (10)
HQ 152nd Infantry Brigade 1945 (11)
5th Battalion (Caithness and Sutherland) Seaforth Highlanders 1945 (12)
28th Infantry Battalion Royal Marines 1945 (15)
307th Infantry Brigade 1945 (16)
4th (Durham) Survey Regiment RA 1945 (17)
HQ 50th Anti-Aircraft Brigade 1945-1946(18)
27th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA 1945-1946 (20)

Fliegerhorst (Airfield) Nordholz south of Cuxhaven
1st Battalion Armoured Coldstream Guards 1945 (6)
5th Battalion Coldstream Guards 1945 (7)

Grimmershorn (Infanterie) Kaserne renamed Churchill Barracks proposed Dundee Barracks later Stockton Barracks
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2nd Battalion Scots Guards 1945 (8)
2nd Battalion (Caithness and Sutherland) Seaforth Highlanders 1945 (13)
54th (5th Durham Light Infantry) Searchlight Regiment 1945-1946 (21)

Marine Offiziersheim later Darlington Barracks
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5th Battalion Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders 1945 (14)
150th (Loyals) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA 1945-1946 (19)
1st/7th Battalion Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge’s Own) (Machine Gun) 1945-1946 (22)
D Company of 2nd Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise’s) 1946 (23)

Minor units to follow – Stockton and Darlington Barracks were side by side and became 126 Transit Camp

(1) arrived Cuxhaven Docks 8 May 45 – Duhner Allee Duhnen north-west Cuxhaven 10 May 45 – moved to Rieda south-west of Verden 20 May 45
(2) arrived Cuxhaven Docks 8 May 45 – moved to Visselhövede south-east of Rotenburg 20 May 45
(3) with Divisional HQ – moved to Eitze south-east of Verden 19 May 45
(4) arrived Cuxhaven Docks 8 May 45 – moved to Wanna south-east of Cuxhaven 13 May 45
(5) arrived Altenwalde south of Cuxhaven 8 May 45 – Stickenbüttel north-west Cuxhaven 13 May 45 – moved to Bartelsdorf north-east of Rotenburg 19 May 45
(6) arrived Nordholz 8 May 45 – moved to Rotenburg 21 May 45
(7) arrived Nordholz 8 May 45 – moved to Westervesede north-east of Rotenburg 20 May 45
(8) arrived Dolles Hotel 8 May 45 – Grimmershorn (Infanterie) Kaserne 9 May 45 – Right Flank to Island of Helgoland 11-16 May 45 – moved to Waffensen north-west of Rotenburg 19 May 45
(9) arrived Altenwalde south of Cuxhaven 8 May 45 – Cuxhaven Docks 9 May 45 – moved to Scheeßel north-east of Rotenburg 20 May 45
(10) (Machine Gun) arrived Altenwalde south of Cuxhaven 8 May 45 – moved to Süderwalsede south of Rotenburg 20 May 45
(11) arrived from Bad Bederkesa north-east of Bremerhaven relieving Guards Armoured Division – Duhner Allee Duhnen north-west Cuxhaven 16 May 45 – moved to Zeven south-east of Bremervörde 1 Nov 45
(12) arrived from Altenbruch east of Cuxhaven 19 May 45 – moved to Sandbostel Camp south-west of Bremervörde 31 Oct 45
(13) arrived from Drangstedt south-west of Bad Bederkesa 19 May 45 – moved to Muna Camp Zeven south-east of Bremervörde 2 Nov 45
(14) arrived from Fickmühlen north-west of Bad Bederkesa 19 May 45 – moved to Westertimke Camp south of Bremervörde 30 Oct 45
(15) arrived from Kiel 21 May 45 – Cuxhaven Docks – moved to Buxtehude 19 Jun 45
(16) arrived from the Netherlands 2 Jun 45 – Stichweg 20, Cuxhaven – 21st Army Group – Altenwalde south of Cuxhaven for Operation Backfire – details to follow – disbanded 30 Nov 45
(17) arrived from Sandbostel Camp south-west of Bremervörde 13 Jun 45 – Stickenbüttel north-west Cuxhaven – moved to Seedorf Camp north-west of Rotenburg 13 Jun 45
(18) arrived from Hipstedt west of Bremervörde relieving 152nd Infantry Brigade – Duhnen north-west Cuxhaven 1 Nov 45 – Neue Reihe 12, Cuxhaven 29 Nov 45 – disbanded 9 Mar 46
(19) arrived from Westertimke Camp south of Bremervörde 30 Oct 45 – suspended animation 20 Feb 46
(20) arrived from Sandbostel Camp south of Bremervörde 1 Oct 45 – Altenbruch east of Cuxhaven – suspended animation 20 Feb 46
(21) arrived from Muna Camp Zeven south-east of Bremervörde 2 Nov 45 – suspended animation 2 Mar 46
(22) arrived from Harsefeld west of Buxtehude 2 Feb 45 – 153rd Infantry Brigade – moved to Erwitte south of Lippstadt 1 Apr 46
(23) arrived from Stade 1 Apr 46 moved to Bottrop north-west of Essen 6 Jun 46

Responsibility for Stadtkreis Cuxhaven passed to 154th Infantry Brigade 1 Feb 46 – 153th Infantry Brigade 1 Mar 46 both of 51st (Highland) Infantry Division – 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division 24 May 46 – Guards Division 4 Jun 46 – 4th Armoured Brigade 5 Dec 46 – 4th Army Group Royal Artillery (Field) of Hamburg District 10 Mar 48

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