Updated 12 October 2024

Original Name – Caspari Kaserne

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HQ 156th (West Scottish) Infantry Brigade 1945 (1)
6th Battalion Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) 1945 (2)
4th/5th Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers 1945 (3)
141st Regiment (The Buffs) RAC 1945 (4)
22nd Dragoons RAC 1945 (5)
Transit Camp 1946 (6)
1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) (7)
3 Company of 4th Battalion Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (Machine Gun) (8)
11th Hussars (Prince Albert’s Own) RAC (9)

HQ 5th Army Group RA (Anti-Aircraft) 1951 (10)
77th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA 1951-1958 (11)
209 Battery – 221 Battery – 222 Battery
1 Apr 55: 209 Battery redesignated 29 Battery – 222 Battery redesignated 41 Battery
17 Jun 55: 37 Battery arrives
1 Jul 55: 221 Battery disbanded
29 Jan 58: 29 + 49 Battery moved to UK – 37 Battery disbanded
30th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA 1951-1958 (12)
76 Battery – 77 Battery – 85 Battery

(1) arrived from Wulsbüttel north of Bremen 14 May 45 – moved to Helmstedt 25 May 45
(2) arrived from Bremen 14 May 45 – moved to Magdeburg 27 May 45
(3) arrived from Bremen 14 May 45 – moved to Magdeburg 27 May 45
(4) arrived 13 May 45 – moved to Rotenburg 26 May 45
(5) arrived from Rotenburg 26 May 45 – moved to Bad Lauterburg south of Goslar 28 Jun 45
(6) required for the movement of 3rd Canadian Infantry Division (Canadian Army Occupation Force) to the UK via Cuxhaven Docks – Mar to May 46
(7) arrived from Recklinghausen north-west of Dortmund 16 Jun 46 – one company arrived 4 Jun 46 – moved to Hamburg 20 Mar 47
(8) arrived from Reinbek east of Hamburg 5 Jun 46 – disbanded by 31 Dec 46
(9) arrived from Jever west of Wilhelmshaven less A Squadron 5 Apr 47 – moved to Osnabrück 22 Feb 48
(10) arrived from UK Feb 51 – moved to Crerar Barracks Oldenburg Sep 51
(11) arrived from UK Feb 51 – suspended animation 29 Jan 58
(12) arrived from UK Mar 51 – disbanded 20 Jan 58

Handed over to the Bundeswehr

More to follow
Source: 21st Army Group later British Army of the Rhine to 1 Mar 49
British Army Units 1945 on

My father was stationed here from 1954 to 1957 with 30 HAA Regt RA, equipped with 3.7″ HAA Guns. The last time I was in Delmenhorst (about 1965), the Barracks had been returned to the Germans and was used by the Luftwaffe as a training centre for the Flak and FlaRak units. I seem to remember pieces of hardware, like a Nike-Hercules, Ju87 etc being place on the grass areas near the fence, and as gate guards.

Roger

I served in 209 bty 77th HAA Regt. RA February 1953 /October 1954 as the driver of Battery Volkswagen.
Have just been reunited with Lt. Bob Lavender. My wife and I visited him on the 27th November where we stayed until Saturday 29th. Sadly, Bob’s wife died last June.

Would like news about, Peter Hartland, Peter Harrison, Mike Steel, Bob Taylor.

Bryan Everatt.

More information on Caspari Kaserne can be found by clicking here (German).

Photographs courtesy of 23114203 ex-Gnr Morrison A.I. 77 HAA Regt RA

I was called up to do my 2 years National Service in Feb 1955. I reported to 68th Training Reg, R.A, Oswestry. After basic training there, I went to 31st Training Reg, Kinmel Camp, Rhyl, N Wales where I learnt to drive. I was then posted to Delmenhorst, W Germany with 77 HAA Reg, RA I was with E troop, 41 Battery. It would be great to hear from anyone who served with me in these locations.

23114203 Gunner Morrison AI.