Updated 12 October 2024
Original Name – Fliegerhorst (Airfield) Kaserne renamed Calgary Barracks later St Barbara Barracks
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C Squadron of 1st Lothians and Border Yeomanry RAC 1945 (1)
Displaced Persons Camp
74th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment 1951-1955 (2)
200 Battery – 202 Battery – 203 Battery – 230 Battery – 231 Battery
1 May 54: 200 Battery – 202 Battery – 203 Battery – disbanded
15 Apr 55: 230 Battery – 231 Battery – suspended animation – 158 Battery – 161 Battery arrived
35th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment/Searchlight Regiment RA 1955-1958 (3)
90 Battery – 92 Battery – 99 Battery
12th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA 1958-1963 (4)
R Battery – S Battery – T Battery
Oct 58: S Battery disbanded – 34 Battery arrived
Jan 59: R Battery – suspended animation – 9 Battery arrived
Aug 60: 34 Battery moved to Neinburg
(1) arrived from Netherlands 13 May 45 – moved to Dünsen south of Delmenhorst 19 May 45
(2) arrived from UK Dec 51 – moved to Hong Kong Jun 55
(3) arrived from Crerar Barracks Oldenburg Jun 55 – disbanded 1 Dec 58
(4) arrived from Lippstadt Aug 58 – moved to UK 1963
More to follow
Source: 21st Army Group later British Army of the Rhine to 1 Mar 49
British Army Units 1945 on
Part II
Originally a Luftwaffe airfield, Adelheide was initially used as a DP Camp and then as an Internment Camp after hostilities ceased.
St Barbara Barracks opened in 1951, housing Artillery units as listed below. Part of the Barracks was handed over the the new Bundeswehr in 1956 and renamed Boelke Kaserne. 12 Regiment R.A. moved out, en-route to Malaya, in 1963, and the whole area was then handed over to the BundeswehrHanded back to Bundeswehr 1963
I served in St Barbara Barracks Adelheide, Delmenhorst from 1960 to 1963 when the Regiment (12 Light Air Defence Regt RA) moved to Barton Stacey to re-equip prior to a Far East posting. At that time the Regiment had two gun batterys: 9 and T btys, an RHQ bty and an attached REME workshop. We were equipped with 40/70 Bofors anti aircraft guns and used to exercise at Hohne ranges and Soltau. We did practice firing camps at Todendorf near Plön on the Baltic coast. This period was when the National Service was being run down.
Milton