BFG/BAOR Locations

Hi.
Wondering if anyone has any info on British forces at Surendorf around Christmas 1945.
Many thanks in advance.
Drover

http://www.thirdreichruins.com/index.htm

This site was posted on the RAOC site,lots to it and I thought it could be of interest here.

Hi there. I'm posting this message on behalf of my father Donald Turner.
He was stationed at Delmenhorst between May 1954 and July 1955. He was a radar mechanic with 5 AGRA REME workshops. From July 1955 to December 1956 he was stationed at AA ranges at Todendorf.
Prior to that he did his basic training at No. 1 Training Batt at Blandford (Sept to Nov 53) and at No.5 Training Batt at...

Have purchased several maps produced by the War Office in 1945
Iserlohn along with Dortmund & Hamm as they border the Iserlohn map also Hameln there must have been a shortage of paper in those days as the the map was printed on the back of a 1940 German map of Maryborough Ireland! confused

If appears that ownership of the map does not give you copyright that appears to still remain w...

Here is one of the photographs supplied by vds. The rest are on the Gort and Llanelly Barracks pages in Hubbelrath.

Click on the thumbnail for a larger image.

Paul.

Can anyone confirm the existence/location of these Barracks? As has been said in another post, it was quite possibly initially occupied by Royal Artillery, although a contact has stated that 314 Transport Group CMLO were there for a time.

Help please.

Paul.

Further information finds that this Camp may have been in the Bochum - Harpen area

The 1st Batalliom Grenadier Guards were Garrison troops after the war with the 2nd Batallion across the river in Siegburg.

On 1st Jan 1946 I was sent to Marienheide to take over a former Hitler Jugend barracks and organise a Ski centre for troops in the area.

Nothing came of it because at the end of Feb. the batallion moved to Kiel Holtenau.

Hi
My Dad was at Blandford march 1955 basic training , National Service,
reme JOSEPH KEITH WILLOUGHBY. Does anyone remember him ?