Lippstadt was the home of an AKK AKK regiment. (Anti-Aircraft)

I was in lippstadt from jan 1990 - dec 1992 and worked in the QM(T) dept. It was my first posting and the best one I had. Amazing town and great posting.
The bar with the mortuary slab in it was 4sqn`s bar if I remember correctly. I was in HQ sqn but was accomodated in that block for about 4 months as there was no room in HQ sqn block.I was allowed to use their bar as i was using their block, so had a few good nights in the bar.
Favourite bar was the playpoint, went there before going down to the KU-till about 5am. Great times

I was in 4 sqn Mar 81 to Mar 84.
I helped build that bar!!
Glad to hear that it was still being used right to the end

Has anyone got a photo of the German hospital in Lippstadt?

Hi 'Poldy'

Ref the German Hospital in Lippstadt-It must have been the Evangelische one as I think it was on the outskirts of the town. MOD had an arrangement with it in the 50's to treat emergency British Service RTA casualties before being transferred to BMH.

The standard of treatment and care there was second to none!

Only Just Registered on to the site which I have been following with great interest and it is a site I always pass on to friends and other Artillery Sites I visit, a site like this has been long over due, so well done.

I have replied on the Lippstadt forum because thats where I started out in September 1973 with 27 Regiment aged 17, also served in Osnabruck and Sennelager.

I visit Lippstadt every October for the Herbstwoche as I look at Lippstadt as the place where i grew up, left in 1981 as part of an arms plot and returned in 1991 to be told a week later that the station was to be closed.

I have always wondered how soldiers in the years before me found Lippstadt, where did they drink ect and I realised last year by speaking to locals that there must be people approaching their sixties that in Lippstadt that are the result of brief relationships, I certainly know of those from my time and spend the odd hour on the net looking for their fathers.

Anyway hope to receive some feedback about the old days when you all wore teddy boy suits ect lol

Thanks for this info Poldy.

I only joined last week, it's a great site and long overdue, well done.

I was in Lippstadt from 1969 to 1972 and a VM in the REME LAD atached to 42 Medium RA. Shortly after I got there 42 went back to the UK and 27 Medium came out from Devizes. Before they came to Lippstadt they went straight on to the gun ranges at Hohne for a few weeks because their CO thought they had had it too soft in the UK. I think it was Jan or Feb and freezing, only the advance party came to the camp.

I was attached to 6 Battery on exercises, me and a gun fitter had a Ferrett so we could follow the M109's across country. We just had our tools, weapons, ammo and compo and a lot of freedom. Good times.

Lippstadt was a good posting and I remember Churchill Barracks very well. It was a twin camp with 22 Signals Regt in the other half. We got on well with the scaley backs and I don't remember much trouble.

When we had finished work on Friday we didn't go to the cookhouse. We used to get out heads down for a couple of hours then meet in the Naafi before going for a big nosh up down town, then meet up in a squaddies bar.(can anybody remind me of the name). Inevitably we would have trouble with the Italians and Turks but not usually with the Germans.

When 27 Medium came to the camp after being on Hohne ranges there happened to be a Schutzenfest on down town so all the regiment went and got rat arsed. It was mayhem, both the camp jails and the civvy nick down town were full so they started sending them to the surrounding garrison jails. My brother was a military policeman in the RAF at Gutersloh, even he remembers being called out to help.

I used to play football for the Gunners regimental team and we had a good run in the BAOR Cup. They were that serious about doing well we used to train every afternoon and were excused guards, fatigues and exercises. Me and one of the gunners played for a local German team as well, the coach used to pick us up in a Mercedes and take us to training and matches.

I have got some photos of the camp in the loft somewhere, including the camp water supply tank which we used as a swimming pool and road testing the 432's around the camp perimeter.

I'll have to dig them out and post them on the pictures section.

Thanks for the nostalgia trip.