Updated 7 September 2024
Stadtkreis Neumünster was the responsibility of the following higher formations:
8th Corps 10 May 45
8th Corps District 11 Jun 45
15th (Scottish) Infantry Division 27 Oct 45
11th Armoured Division 4 Feb 46
8th Corps District 27 Feb 46
Guards Division 6 Apr 46
Hamburg District 31 Dec 46
2nd/16th Independent Parachute Brigade Group was responsible for Schleswig Holstein from 12 Mar 48 – relieved by a Norwegian Army Brigade Sep 48 to Apr 53
No major units are recorded in the town from Dec 46 until Feb 49 except for 3 Airborne Squadron RE who arrived from UK Mar 48 and moved to Hameln 30 Sep 48
Source: 21st Army Group later British Army of the Rhine to Mar 49
Photos courtesy of Bryan Cooke, late The 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary’s Own)