28 Engineer Regiment

Paul · Subject: 28 Engineer Regiment Mon Jan 05, 2009 12:24 pm

There are two trains of thought on this Regiment.

One says that it was stationed for most of its life in Bindon Barracks, Hameln before moving to Gordon Barracks. The other says it was in Gordon Barracks.

Anyone out there who can clear this one up please?

Paul.

soprano54 · Subject: Re: 28 Engineer Regiment Mon Jan 05, 2009 6:20 pm

I'd safely say that 28 Amph were stationed in Bindon! I did an AA Camo & Surv Cse back in the early eighties in Gordon Bks and it was occupied by 35 Eng Regt, HTH.

Guest

Hi Paul

Soprano54 is correct 35 Engr Regt supporting 20 Armd Bde was reformed in Nov 70 in Gordon Barracks and moved to Barker Barracks Paderborn Dec 99 where they remain today from Dec 77 to Jan 81 were known as 4 Armd Div Engr Regt

I was attached to the Combat Engineer Training Centre in 1979 from 3 Armd Div Engr Regt Iserlohn therefore on 4 Armd Div Engr Regt strength for admin purposes

28 Amph Engr Regt supporting 1 (BR) Corps formed Jan 71 in Bindon Barracks they dropped Amph in 1992 and supported 1 Armd Div then in Dec 99/Jan 00 moved into Gordon Barracks and remain there today

Cheers
Steve

Paul · Subject: Re:- 28 Eng Regt Mon Jan 05, 2009 7:19 pm

Thanks to both of you for your replies.

I will amend the pages as necessray in due course.

Paul.

armaniwoe · Subject: Re: 28 Engineer Regiment Sat Jul 11, 2009 8:09 am

Hi guys,

I'm german and I live 7km in the south of Hameln!

In honour of all British Units of Hameln I built a homepage. The page isn't complete and I'm still working on it.

I'm looking for some help for my page and I don't know if the info are all correct.

If you have some information (pics, dates, whatever....) for me and my page please contact me!

Have a look:

http://armaniwoe.jimdo.com/history-of-british-army-in-hameln/

Best regards
Arnd

Paul · Subject: Re: 28 Engineer Regiment Tue Sep 29, 2009 2:16 pm

armaniwoe wrote:

Hi guys,

I'm german and I live 7km in the south of Hameln!

In honour of all British Units of Hameln I built a homepage. The page isn't complete and I'm still working on it.

I'm looking for some help for my page and I don't know if the info are all correct.

If you have some information (pics, dates, whatever....) for me and my page please contact me!

Have a look:

http://armaniwoe.jimdo.com/history-of-british-army-in-hameln/

Best regards
Arnd

Hello Arnd,

I am Paul and one of the Administrators on the site, although I have been absent for a period of time (longer than I wanted to be actually)

Let me know what you are looking for and I am sure that someone on the site will come up with something for you.

Paul.

Paul · Subject: Re: 28 Engineer Regiment Tue Sep 29, 2009 2:17 pm

Guest wrote:

Hi Paul

Soprano54 is correct 35 Engr Regt supporting 20 Armd Bde was reformed in Nov 70 in Gordon Barracks and moved to Barker Barracks Paderborn Dec 99 where they remain today from Dec 77 to Jan 81 were known as 4 Armd Div Engr Regt

I was attached to the Combat Engineer Training Centre in 1979 from 3 Armd Div Engr Regt Iserlohn therefore on 4 Armd Div Engr Regt strength for admin purposes

28 Amph Engr Regt supporting 1 (BR) Corps formed Jan 71 in Bindon Barracks they dropped Amph in 1992 and supported 1 Armd Div then in Dec 99/Jan 00 moved into Gordon Barracks and remain there today

Cheers
Steve

Did I ever correct those pages?? I must look!!!

Paul.

Stephen Lock · Subject: Re: 28 Engineer Regiment Tue Sep 29, 2009 7:28 pm

armaniwoe wrote:

Hi guys,

I'm german and I live 7km in the south of Hameln!

In honour of all British Units of Hameln I built a homepage. The page isn't complete and I'm still working on it.

I'm looking for some help for my page and I don't know if the info are all correct.

If you have some information (pics, dates, whatever....) for me and my page please contact me!

Have a look:

http://armaniwoe.jimdo.com/history-of-british-army-in-hameln/

Best regards
Arnd

That is fantastic, Arnd. As some of us have written on this site, there is a concern that the stories, history, usw of BAOR in Germany will gradually be forgotten or slip into irrelevance as the generations of those of us who served, or whose families served, in Germany age and pass away and a new generation grows up with no connection to this history.

I know the history of the Canadians in NRW is becoming forgotten and there just isn't much in the way of memorials or monuments or any sort of recorded history in Hemer, Iserlohn, Deilinghofen (there is a 'denkmal' to commemorate the hockey players there, put up by the Iserlohner Roosters and a small plaque on the Deilinghofen church), Werl, Unna, or Soest.

On line, all I have ever been able to find are sites created by the children, now adults of course, of Canadian military once stationed in Germany but have found nothing that is what I would call a "history" as such.

So knowing there is someone out there who is interested in keeping alive that history is wonderful.

Danke Shoen!!