Royal Army Ordnance Corps

Base Ordnance Depot (BOD)

Antwerp 15 BOD (rear)
Veirsen 15 BOD
Dulmen 15 BOD (fwd)
Bielefeld 15 BOD (adv)

Ordnance Field Park provided first line support to the old brigades i.e. 7 Armd Brigade. All Ordnance required quickly at the outbreak of war was held/mounted on 4 ton and 10 ton vehicles. The items ranged from nuts and bolts, hand tools to palletised tank track, vehicle batteries, tyres, MT stores for A and B vehicle for the first 10 days or so when Ivan arrived. What some people didn’t know was that that Ivan was going to move at the rate of knots and as rear area feba we had about 37 min to kiss our bums good bye.

Fuel and ammo were held by 1 Combat Support Bn.

The OFPs were disbanded with 11 OFP became 1 Armd Div Ord Coy (1 ADOC) in the late 1970s. All were changed again to Ordnance Companies with 33 Ord Coy becoming one of them.

In the 1970s my war reserve ammo was 2500 x 0.9mm rounds, 2500 x 7.62mm rounds, 1.5 hand grenades, 2.39 of 66mm and 3 x1″ Verey flare. Lastly, I could exchange 1 pair of boots and 3 pair of socks per 100 men – we had 123 men. This of course was the good old Labour Party. Seems like things never change.

Jack Frost

Intelligence Corps

Headquarters Intelligence and Security Group (Germany) was located in Rheindahlen and comprised the following units:

2 Intelligence Company – Rheindahlen
3 Intelligence and Security Company – Berlin
4 Security Company – Düsseldorf (with Sections/Detachments in Emblem, Düsseldorf, Muenster, Dortmund and Rheindahlen)
5 Security Company – Plathnerstrasse, Hannover
6 Intelligence Company – Rheindahlen
7 Intelligence Company – Bielelfeld (with Sections/Detachments in Verden, Hohne, Soltau, Lübbecke, Korbecke, Soest, Paderborn, Osnabruck, Münster, Herford).
Headquarters 5 Security Company – Plathnerstrasse, Hannover
51 Security Section – Trenchard Barracks, Celle
52 Security Section – Woolwich Barracks annexe, Osnabrück
53 Security Section – “The Strip” Sennelager
54 Security Section – Rochdale Barracks, Bielefeld