Updated 9 August 2024

Cambridge Barracks named 21 Jun 45 formerly Admiral Scheer Kaserne – Admiral Scheer Straße today Feldstraße

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HQ 46th (Highland) Infantry Brigade 1945 (1)
Corps Commander RA 8th Corps 1945 (2)
HQ Kiel Area Brigade 1945 (2)
HQ 117th Infantry Brigade RM 1945 (3)

(1) arrived from east of Ahrensburg 8 May 45 – relieved by Kiel Area Brigade 12 May 45 remaining under command until 23 May 45 – to Dorset Barracks 22 May 45
(2 arrived from Molfsee south-west Kiel – redesignated Kiel Area Brigade 10 May 45 – to Northolt Barracks 19 Oct 45
(3) arrived from Lüneburg 18 May 45 – relieved 46th (Highland) Infantry Brigade 22 May 45 – moved to UK 27 Jun 45

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

Part II

May–June 1945. The 117th Infantry Brigade Royal Marines moved from England to Kiel in mid May 1945 in order to release 46 Highland Brigade for occupational duties elsewhere in Schleswig Holstein. Principal tasks included the provision of a Guard Force for all naval installations in the city, the disarming and initial screening of all German Naval Personnel and subsequent dispersal to concentration areas in accordance with OPERATION ECLIPSE. Another problem was the arrival, by sea, of civilian refugees from the Soviet occupied areas of Eastern Germany including East Prussia. The Brigade left Kiel in June to return to the UK and disbandment.