Updated 27 July 2024

Holzminden was the responsibility of the following higher formations:
30th Corps 5 Jun 45
30th Corps District 11 Jun 45
5th Infantry Division 5 Jul 45
Hannover District 15 Jan 48
7th Armoured Division 1 Mar 49

Requisitioned civilian accommodation

RHQ 121st Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA 1945-1946 (1)

Pionier Kaserne – there was a proposal to rename Cheshire Barracks in Sep 46 – please note the translation into English is Engineer not Pioneer.

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121st Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA 1945-1946 (1)
B Squadron 9th Royal Tank Regiment RAC 1945 (2)
99 Battery 18th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment 1946 (3)
5 Infantry Divisional School 1946-1948 (4)
27 Independent Field Squadron RE (5)
21 Field Engineer Regiment RE (6)
4 Field Squadron – 7 Field Squadron – 27 Field Squadron – 45 Field Support Squadron

(1) arrived 4 Jun 45 – Viktoria Luise Weg 2, 14 Nov 45 – disbanded 1 Mar 46
385 Battery arrived from Eschershausen north-east of Holzminden 24 Jan 46
388 Battery – Viktoria Luise Weg 2, 8 Nov 45 – returns 14 Nov 45 – redesignated 385/388 Battery 27 Feb 46
(2) arrived from Bremke south-east of Göttingen 8 Nov 45 – disbanded 31 Dec 45
(3) arrived from Altenau south of Goslar 13 Feb 46 – moved to Salzgitter-Lichtenburg south-west of Wolfenbüttel 30 Jun 46
(4) formed 25 Feb 46 – disbanded early 1948
(5) arrived from Mönchengladbach 21 Nov 48 – 21 Field Engineer Regiment RE less Independent Jul 49
(6) formed Jul 49 moved to Gordon Barracks Hameln Oct 49

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

21 Field Engineer Regiment RE formed 1949 in Holzminden, situated about 30 miles east of Paderborn. They then moved to Gordon Barracks Hameln, then on to Assaye Barracks, Nienburg, where they would spend the next 46 years.