Updated 27 July 2024

Previous information has proven to be incorrect and it appears that Gort Barracks did not exist in WW2, therefore must have been a new build in the early 1950s, therefore research in progress. Help will be appreciated.

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

Part II

Named after Field Marshal John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort VC GCB CBE DSO and two Bars MVO MC (commonly known as Lord Gort).

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2nd Battalion Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) Oct 1952 to Jun 1953 (1)
1st Battalion East Lancashire Regiment Feb 1954 to Feb 1955
1st Battalion Grenadier Guards Feb 1955 to Jan 1958 to UK
1st Battalion Coldstream Guards Jan 1958 to Nov 1958 to UK (2)
1st Battalion Scots Guards Nov 1958 to Dec 1960
1st Battalion Welsh Guards Dec19 60 to Nov 1963 to UK
1st Battalion Grenadier Guards Nov 1963 to May 1964 (3)

Along with Llanelly Barracks Gort Barracks was handed back to the German authorities in 1967

Both areas were renamed Bergische Kaserne and used by the Bundeswehr until 2008

(1) Dates supplied by the Archivist of The Black Watch. Moved to Moore Barracks Dortmund command 5th Infantry Brigade Group in June/July 1953
(2) Arrived from Bradbury Barracks Krefeld
(3) Moved to Keightley Barracks Wüppertal

It is not certain at this time if the four photographs below of Bergische Kaserne are on the correct page. They may be moved to the Llanelly Barracks page should that be the correct place for them.

Above four photographs courtesy of Ernst J. von der Schmitt