Kiel various

Updated 11 August 2024

Requisitioned civilian accommodation and Camps

A + B Coy 5th Battalion King’s Regiment (Liverpool) (T-Force) 1945 (1)
4th Battalion Armoured Coldstream Guards 1945 (2)
9th Battalion Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) 1945 (3)
2nd Battalion Glasgow Highlanders 1945 (4)
A Squadron 15th (Scottish) Reconnaissance Regiment RAC (5)
10th Survey Regiment RA 1945 (6)
A/10 Battery – B/10 Battery
6th Armoured Engineer Regiment RE 1945 (7)
81 Squadron – 284 Squadron
121st (Leicestershire Regiment) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA 1945 (8)
33rd Infantry Battalion RM 1945 (9)
B + C Coy 30th Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment (T-Force) 1945 (10)
1st Battalion Grenadier Guards 1946 (11)

Fluke Camp – north-west of Pries north of Kiel
121st (Leicestershire Regiment) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA 1945 (8)
396 Battery – 397 Battery – 399 Battery
63rd Anti-Tank Regiment RA 1945 (12)

Hammer Gut Camp – Speckenbeker Weg Hasse south-west Kiel
147th (Essex Yeomanry) Field Regiment RA 1945-1946 (13)
4th Regiment Royal Horse Artillery 1945 (14)

Rhine Camp formerly Polizei Kaserne – Mühlenweg
9th Battalion Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) 1945 (3)

Seine Camp – Hasseldieksdamm west Kiel
31st Infantry Battalion RM 1945 (13)

(1) arrived 5 May 45 – ELAC (Electrocoustic) Factory Weddigenring today Westring – moved to Goslar 12 Jun 45
(2) arrived from Eiderstede Bordesholm south-west of Kiel 8 May 45 – Wilhelmplatz – moved to Kirchbarkau south of Kiel 10 May 45

(3) arrived from Schönberg east of Ahrensburg 8 May 45 – Schrevenpark – Rhine Camp with all companies 29 May 45 – moved to Wismar east of Lübeck 10 Jun 45
(4) arrived from Schönberg east of Ahrensburg 8 May 45 – Wellingdorf – Kieler Hörn (Harbour) 11 May 45 – moved to Niendorf-Ostsee north-west of Travemünde 24 May 45
(5) arrived from Elmhorst north-east of Hamburg – Klausdorf south-east of Kiel 8 May 45 – Duesternbrook 13 May 45 – moved to Niendorf-Ostsee north-west of Travemünde 18 May 45
(6) arrived from Wesenberg south-west of Lübeck 10 May 45 – Melsdorf Straße – Hamburger Chaussee 13 May 45 – moved to Langenweddingen south-west of Magdeburg 15 Jun 45
(7) arrived from Lübeck 12 May 45 – Gut Knopp Altenholz-Knoop north-west Kiel – dismounted in the normal engoneer role – moved to Adendorf north of Lüneburg 13 Jun 45
(8) from Camp Fluke 12 May 45 – Dietrichsdorf east of Kiel – returns 12 Jul 45
– moved to Lübeck 1 Feb 46
(9) arrived from Lüneburg 18 May 45 – Am Wilhelmplatz – moved to UK 19 Jun 45
(10) arrived from Netherlands
3 Jun 45 – ELAC (Electrocoustic) Factory Weddigenring today Westring – C Coy arrived 12 Jun 45 – disbanded 1 Nov 45 – T-Force Detachment remained until 1 May 46
(11) arrived from Bonn 15 Feb 46 – Knopp north of Kiel – to Hendon Barracks 7 Apr 46
(12) from Northolt Barracks – returns 4 Jun 46 – to Northolt Barracks and suspended animation 15 Jun 46

(13) arrived from Hannover 11 Jun 45 – one Bty
Russee Camp north-west of Camp Hammer Gut – to Essex Barracks 14 Jun 45
(14) arrived from Pinneburg north-west of Hamburg 18 Jun 45 – one Bty
Russee Camp north-west of Camp Hammer Gut – to Dorset Barracks 5 Jan 46

Batteries were at various locations

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