Bristol Barracks

Updated 10 September 2024

Original Name – Artillerie Kaserne

Displaced Persons Camp cleared by 15 Apr 46

Home to:
8 Battery 4th (Ulster) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA 1946 (1)
98th (Surrey & Sussex Yeomanry Queen Mary’s) Field Regiment RA 1946 (2)
391 Battery – 392 Battery – 471 Battery
Life Guards Armoured Car Regiment RAC 1946 (3)
2nd Battalion Devonshire Regiment 1946-1947 (4)
2nd Battalion Essex Regiment 1947 (5)
1st Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 1947-1948 (6)

(1) from Neuetorstraße 20 Feb 46 – moved to Onsabrück 25 Feb 46
(2) arrived from Bleckede east of Lüneburg 1 Apr 46 – 471 Battery arrived 25 Mar 45 – disbanded 18 May 46
(3) arrived from Berlin 7 Jun 46 – one squadron arrived 27 Jun 46 – moved to UK 6 Jul 46
(4) arrived from
Uelzen north-east of Celle 6 Jul 46 – less one company – suspended animation 15 Apr 47
(5) arrived from Italy 15 Apr 47 – moved to UK 20 May 47
(6) arrived from Italy 20 May 47 – moved to
Göttingen 24 Sep 48

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