Has anyone got any photos, info or even camp names of when we were there? If so, please email it to me on; webmaster@baor-locations.co.uk or leave the info as a reply to this topic within the forum.

Try This link

http://www.western-allies-berlin.com/installations/barracks/barracks

Also

Stadium Barracks
BMH Berlin
RAF Gatow
Edingburgh house
Spandau Prision

Cheers Ron,

Here is another couple of links that was sent by a good friend of mine:

http://home.att.net/~rw.rynerson/fotos.htm

http://www.alliierteinberlin.de/index_e.html

http://www.berlin-brigade.de/us-ins/us-ein3.html

Dont know but when I was in Berlin a couple of years ago there was IIRC a Bks near the Kaiser place? looked as if it had been empty for a few years

Any one have any copies of the Berlin Bulliten from around 1990- 1992 they would like to copy, or sell, or at least know how to aquire them?

Many Thanks
Harv
Qs

I have quite a collection of my fathers WWII photos.
He was with 2nd Tactical Air Force RAF rear HQ.
These cover from D day +11 Normandy through Brussls, Buckeburg and around Berlin during 1954 etc.
They may be difficult to scann as some are direct prints of 35m film, others commecial post cards.
If you think they are interested i will do a sample of few and let you have them?
regards
Peter

Peter,

I am pretty sure that there will be someone, either on the Forum pages or on the main site, that will be able to advise on up loading photographs, etc.

Have you tried looking at this page?

http://baor-locations.com/forum.aspx

It give a rundown of how to upload images.

Paul.

I was there from Jan 87 to Dec 79.

Brooke and Wavell Barracks (Infantry) were in Spandau
Montgomery Barracks (Infantry) was at Gatow
Alexander Barracks (Logistics) was also in Spandau but the other side of the town.
Smuts Barracks (Armd Recce) was also in Spandau next to the Prison.

Hope this helps.

I was posted to Berlin 1976 after D squadron RSDG (Edinburgh) was disbanded. I went to Osnabruck in November on a honda 750 and from there to Berlin on it. Traveliing along the corridor from west germany to Berlin in a snow storm was some experience, to be welcomed by the squadron S/M with a glass of whiskey.
A couple of the outstanding memories were , the corporals mess was earmakred for demolition so we got to drive a chieftain through it, sadly the photos I took have disappear in the sands of time. Another was being ferried in a chieftain (with a dozer blade) by the engineers early one morning across the havel, being the driver I was not allowed to get out but given a lifejacket!

I was stationed in Wavell bks in 1976 i only have one photo left and thats me standing with some pal inside the camp on the road that runs along side the sleeping blocks you are welcome to it if you want

regards Ian (tess)

I was stationed in Smuts Barracks from July 1960 to February 1962 have a number of photographs some black & white other colour from this period if anybody is interested

Smut's Barracks square overlooked by Spandau Prison. Occupants at the time were Alber Speer (Hitler's architect and armaments minister), Baldur von Schirach (leader of the Hitler Youth) and Rudolf Hess (Hitler's deputy leader in the Nazi Party)



Inside Smuts Barracks showing main block on the right (admin and accommodation) and on the left cookhouse (downstairs) and NAAFI (upstairs). In the distance there is a fence across the road and beyond is the entrance to Spandau prison

Thanks for your comment whitehorse.
We often saw Hess outside the prison between the wall and the fencing you can see in my first photo, usually when it was the British turn on guard duty. It probably relieved the boredom of both prisoner and guards.
I was lucky??? to be there when the wall went up, so at times things got a little hairy. Especially when, as drivers, we had to drive through Checkpoint Charlie and drive around East Berlin for an hour and then come out, as somebody else drove in, just to maintain our right of entry.