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Updated 20 August 2024

1st Battalion Leicestershire Regiment 1945-1946 (1)
3rd Reconnaissance Regiment (8th Northumberland Fusiliers) RAC 1945-1946 (2)
10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales Own) RAC 1946 (3)
Royal Horse Guards (The Blues) Armoured Car Regiment RAC 1946-1948 (4)
201 CRASC 1948-1950 (5)

22 Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA 1949-1956 (6)
47 Battery – 53 (Louisburg) Battery – 58 (Eyre’s Company) Battery
58 Battery moved to 53 Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA replaced by 48 Battery from 72 Coast Regiment RA Dec 50

58 Medium Regiment RA 1956-1959 (7)
118 Battery –175 Battery – Z Battery – 115 Location Battery arrived 1958

50 Medium Regiment RA 1959-1964 – less Medium 1960 (8)
15 Battery – 21 Battery – 33 Battery – 78 Battery

50 Missile Regiment RA 1964-1993 (9)
15 Missile Battery – 21 (Gibraltar) Missile Battery – 33 Heavy Battery
78 Heavy Battery replaced by 56 Heavy Battery from 36 Regiment RA Mar 68
1971: 15 Missile Battery in Northern Ireland
1972: Now all Missile Batteries – 33 Battery to Junior Leaders Regiment RA Apr/Nov 72
56 Battery to 27 Regiment replaced by 36 Battery Nov 72
1976: Renamed 50 (Missile) Regiment RA – 21 Battery moved to 27 Regiment RA
1977: Amalgamated with 24 (Missile) Regiment RA – 1 Artillery Division from Jan 81
19 (Gibraltar) Battery – 15 Missile Battery – 36 (Arcot) Battery – 51 (Kabul) Battery
were granted the Freedom of Menden Aug 85
1985: 51 (Kabul) Battery disbanded
1990: 15 Missile Battery in Northern Ireland
1992: 36 Battery in Northern Ireland – Maze Prison
1993: 36 Battery to 40 Regiment RA Mar 93 – 15 Battery to 22 Regt
19 Battery to 14 Regiment RA
50 (Missile) Regiment RA placed in suspended animation 31 March 1993

Barracks closed

(1) arrived from Hemer-Landhausen 23 Jun 45 – 147th Infantry Brigade – detachments in Hemer – Iserlohn – Letmathe – moved to Camp Roosevelt Hemer 5 Feb 46
(2) arrived from Bensberg east of Köln 19 Oct 45 – 147th Infantry Brigade – disbanded 5 Feb 46
(3) arrived from Italy 3 Feb 46 – 49th (West Riding) Infantry Divisional Troops – 56th Infantry Brigade remaining as Corps Reserve – moved to Lübeck 15 Apr 46
(4) arrived from Gummersbach north-east of Köln 30 Apr 46 – 1st Corps District Troops – 2nd Infantry Division 1 Feb 47 – moved to Wesendorf north-east of Hannover 7 Jan 49
(5) arrived from Aldershot Barracks Iserlohn 3 Nov 48 – moved to West Riding Barracks Dortmund as HQ RASC Rhine Area late 1950
(6) arrived from Oxford Barracks Münster 20 Jan 49 – HQRA 2nd Infantry Division – moved to Shorncliffe UK Apr 56
(7) arrived from Churchill Barracks Lippstadt – HQRA 2nd Infantry Division – taking on strength Z Battery who arrived from 10 Regiment RA Ubique Barracks Dortmund later 1 (BR) Corps Troops – disbanded Oct 59
(8) arrived from Dundonald Camp Troon Scotland Oct 59 – 1 AGRA (Field) redesignated 1 Artillery Brigade (Field) 4 Oct 61
(8) HQRA 2nd Infantry Division – Artillery Brigade (Field) 1971

Sources: 21st Army Group later British Army of the Rhine to 1 Mar 49
British Army Units 1945 on

The following three photographs are courtesy of 50th Missile Club Royal Artillery.
Thank you to them.

Front Gate. I wouldn’t like to be stagging on that night.

Guard Room.

Aerial views of the camp

Menden Zentrum