Flensburg is about 8 km/5 miles from the Danish border, and lies at the southernmost tip of the Flensburger Forde. The suburb of Mürwick is about 3 miles to the north.
Updated 4 July 2024
Flensburg was the responsibility of the following higher formations:
11th Armoured Division 10 May 45
8th Corps District 27 Feb 46
Guards Division 2 Apr 46
Hamburg District 31 Dec 46
HQ Norwegian Brigade Group in Schleswig relieved the 16th Independent Parachute Brigade Group Oct 48 to Apr 53
Norderhofenden 1, (former Police Headquarters shared with Royal Navy)
Home to:
159th Infantry Brigade 1945-1946 (1)
31st Armoured Brigade 1946 (2)
4th Armoured Brigade 1946 (2)
Royal Artillery Brigade Guards Division 1946 (3)
Requisitioned civilian accommodation
1st Battalion Cheshire Regiment (Machine Gun) 1945 (4)
Kielseng Lager renamed Antwerp Camp later Inverness Barracks, Flensburg Docks
Home to:
4th Battalion King’s Shropshire Light Infantry 1945-1946 (5)
2 (Independent) Company of 4th Battalion Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (Machine Gun) 1945-1946 (7)
Panzer/Grenzland Kaserne later Hereford Barracks
Home to:
1st Battalion Herefordshire Regiment 1945-1946 (6)
2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort’s Own) 1945-1946 (8)
3rd Royal Tank Regiment RAC 1946-1948 (9)
64 Air Landing Light Battery RA 1948 (12)
300 Air Landing Anti-Tank Battery RA 1948 (13)
33 Airborne Light Regiment RA 1948 (14)
82 Battery – 96 Battery – 98 Battery – 2 Forward Observer Troop
Meierwik Kaserne later Chester Barracks, Glücksburg north-east of Flensburg
Home to:
1st Battalion Cheshire Regiment (Machine Gun) – moved to Quantock Barracks (4)
Quantock Barracks formerly Marinenachrichtenschule (Naval Signals Academy) Flensburg-Mürwik
Home to:
1st Battalion Cheshire Regiment (Machine Gun) 1945-1946 (4)
2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort’s Own) 1946 (8)
55th (West Somerset Yeomanry) Field Regiment 1946 (11)
373 Battery – 374 Battery – 439 Battery
Duburg (Infanterie) Kaserne
Home to:
269 Forward Delivery Squadron RAC (10)
(1) arrived from Bühnsdorf west of Lübeck 10 May 45 – Jarplund-Dorf south of Flensburg to 14 May 45 – relieved by 31st Armoured Brigade 4 Feb 46 – moved to Neersen south-west of Krefeld 6 Feb 46
(2) arrived from Neersen south-west of Krefeld 5 Feb 46 – Tac HQ arrived 26 Jan 46 – redesignated 4th Armoured Brigade 11 Mar 46 – relieved by Royal Artillery Brigade Guards Division 2 Apr 46 – moved to Oelde south-west of Gütersloh 5 Apr 46
(3) arrived from Aachen 2 Apr 46 – moved to Louisenlund east of Schleswig 6 Jun 46
(4) arrived from Boostedt-Rickling north-west of Bad Segeberg 13 May 45 – Glücksburg north-east of Flensburg 13 Sep 45 – Chester Barracks north-east of Flensburg – Quantock Barracks – moved to Schwerte north-west of Iserlohn 7 Feb 46
(5) arrived from Jarplund-Dorf south of Flensburg 10 May 45 – moved to Kleve north-west of Krefeld 5 Feb 46
(6) arrived from Bad Segeberg north-west of Lübeck 13 May 45 – moved to Niebüll west of Flensburg 13 Nov 45
(7) arrived from Frörup south of Flensburg 28 May 45 – moved to Süchteln south-west of Krefeld 6 Feb 46
(8) arrived from Austria 10 Dec 45 – Quantock Barracks 4 Feb 46 – moved to Greven north of Münster 6 Apr 46
(9) arrived from Süchteln south-west of Krefeld 3 Feb 46 – moved to UK 1 Jan 48
(10) arrived from Willich south-west of Krefeld 5 Feb 46 – moved to Quelle south-west of Bielefeld 10 Apr 46
(11) arrived from Aachen 2 Apr 46 less detachment arrived from 27 Apr 46 – disbanded 31 Dec 46
(12) arrived from Rendsburg west of Kiel 24 May 48 – redesignated 96 Airborne Light Battery
(13) arrived from Rendsburg west of Kiel 24 May 48 – redesignated 9 Airborne Anti-Tank Battery – moved to Hannover 26 Sep 48
(14) arrived from UK 24 Jul 48 – moved to Fallingbostel 26 Sep 48
More to follow
Source: 21st Army Group later British Army of the Rhine to 1 Mar 49
Part II
1st Infantry Battalion Tyskland Norwegian Brigade September 1948-Spring 1951
Artillery Field Regiment Norwegian Tyskland Brigade September 1948-April 1953
Anti Tank Battery Norwegian Tyskland Brigade Spring 1951-April 1953
(1) Operation Blackout, involving 159 Infantry Brigade, was carried out in late May 1945 to arrest the remnants of the last of the Nazi High Command, under Grand Admiral Doenitz, trapped in the suburbs of Flensburg.
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