Number of posts : 1298 Age : 89 Localisation : West of England Cap Badge : Royal Signals Places Served : Harrogate 1949-52. HQ BAOR Sig Regt 1952-54, Korea 1954-55, Egypt 1955, Cyprus 1955-57, HMS Santon 1957, UK 7th Hussars 1957-59, 1st Gds Bde 1959-60, 201 Signal Sqn 1960-62, 206 Sig Sqn 1962-63, 7 Sig Regt 1963-66, 249 Sig Sqn 1966-68, 11 Sig Regt 1968-72. Retired 1972 Registration date : 2010-02-22
Subject: Re: BFPO Numbers 20/6/2012, 22:35
Steve.L, BFPO 33, Was it not Hannover !
Jimsigs1
Steve.L Sgt
Number of posts : 21 Age : 79 Localisation : France Cap Badge : R. Signals Places Served : Birgelin, Langeleben, Singapore, Borneo,Brunei Registration date : 2011-06-10
Subject: Re: BFPO Numbers 21/6/2012, 08:09
jimsigs1,
Yes. I believe 33 was officially listed as Hannover but it covered a wide area including the old rest centres at Bad Harzburg and the barracks at Goslar and STC Silberhutte I think and may have extended to the Border crossing at Helmstedt although that was also covered by Berlin as most of the RMP and REME seemed to be based there.
This simple topic of B.F.P.O.'s seems to have generated lots of interest and correspondence and all interesting. I have seen some published lists but none as detailed as the ones listed above.
Steve
ScouseWylde Private
Number of posts : 2 Localisation : CVheshire Cap Badge : Royal Engineers Places Served : JLRRE Dover 75/76, 3TRRE 76, 51 Fd Sqn (Airfds) Waterbeach 76/77, 51 Fd Sqn (Const) Ripon 77/81, RHQ 21 Engr Regt Nienburg 81/85, 3 Fd Sqn Perham Down 85/86- Demob Jan 1986 Registration date : 2014-06-25
Subject: Re: BFPO Numbers 25/6/2014, 19:35
I was in Nienburg (21 Engr Regt) 81-84/5 and it was BFPO48
Paul
biggsy Sgt
Number of posts : 33 Age : 62 Localisation : Linolnshire. Cap Badge : RA Places Served : Kenya, Worthy Down, Winchester, Andover, Detmold, Soest, Hamm, Korbecke, Kirton Lindsey, Registration date : 2012-05-18
Subject: Re: BFPO Numbers 25/6/2014, 21:34
Hamm, BFPO 103 Soest, BFPO 106 Gil Gil, Kenya, BFPO 10 That's all I know!
Pborn4 Brig
Number of posts : 653 Localisation : Between Hannover and Herford, off all main routes Cap Badge : Not even a reservist now - have been Pborn3 Places Served : Oswestry 1965, Paderborn to 1971, NE Dist, Munsterlager from 1974, Sennelager (1976 to 2012) Registration date : 2016-12-16
Subject: BFPO 25/8/2020, 22:09
75 years complete BFPO
alan8376 and Pborn4 like this post
alan8376 Brig
Number of posts : 734 Age : 76 Localisation : Norfolk, UK Cap Badge : REME Places Served : Carlisle AAS, Aden, Hildesheim, Bordon, Fallingbostel, Dover, NI Tours, Osnabruck, Herford, Muenster, UN Nicosia, SBA Dhekellia Cyprus x2, Waterbeach, Civi Street 1988. Retired from VOSA 2007. Registration date : 2009-07-28
Subject: Re: BFPO Numbers 26/8/2020, 10:51
Was there not confusion about one BFPO number getting mixed up?
I can't now remember the story behind it?
Alan...
Pborn4 Brig
Number of posts : 653 Localisation : Between Hannover and Herford, off all main routes Cap Badge : Not even a reservist now - have been Pborn3 Places Served : Oswestry 1965, Paderborn to 1971, NE Dist, Munsterlager from 1974, Sennelager (1976 to 2012) Registration date : 2016-12-16
Subject: Re: BFPO Numbers 12/9/2020, 21:22
Alan, Was this the half remembered story:
BFPO 47 (RAF GT) and BFPO 113 (Mansergh Bks, GT) The reason for this divergence was some silly idea of security when 47 Fd Regt RA moved into Mansergh Bks. The idea was that the BFPO number and the unit shouldn't have the same number, despite the fact that the address would have both the BFPO number and the unit title on separate lines on the envelope.
Even earlier The sequence BAOR 7, BAOR 17, BAOR 27 and BAOR 37 were never used to avoid confusion surrounding the handwritten English and German style figures 1 and 7.
Pborn4 Brig
Number of posts : 653 Localisation : Between Hannover and Herford, off all main routes Cap Badge : Not even a reservist now - have been Pborn3 Places Served : Oswestry 1965, Paderborn to 1971, NE Dist, Munsterlager from 1974, Sennelager (1976 to 2012) Registration date : 2016-12-16
Subject: BFPO 16 loading dock (site faces on to Bielefelderstr.) 14/12/2021, 15:48
BFPO 16 - Sennelager - Rear Entrance and loading dock: viewed from inside Normandy Barracks
Pborn4 Brig
Number of posts : 653 Localisation : Between Hannover and Herford, off all main routes Cap Badge : Not even a reservist now - have been Pborn3 Places Served : Oswestry 1965, Paderborn to 1971, NE Dist, Munsterlager from 1974, Sennelager (1976 to 2012) Registration date : 2016-12-16
Subject: BFPO Numbers and Postcodes 7/1/2022, 01:21
And now:
Drawdown and Close down left the German Postal system with problems delivering mail to BFPO addresses which were no longer there AND an increase in Mail Order and Online purchasing by people entitled to BFPO services led to an increase in packages being left at BFPO Mill Hill and later BFPO Northolt, and courier drivers from Logistic centres in Germany had even greater problems at civilian addresses on MQ estates or BFPO numbers for barracks. So to level the playing field BFPO Numbers received a UK Post Code!
" Only use postcodes when ordering items from UK-based websites"
BFPO 16 - Sennelager BF1 0AB
BFPO 19 - Monchengladbach BF1 0AE
BFPO 26 - Casteau SHAPE Belgium BF1 2AG
BFPO 28 - Brunssum Holland BF1 2AH
BFPO 44 - Wulfen BF1 0AR
BFPO 46 - Goch/Wessel BF1 0AT
BFPO 49 - Brussels Belgium BF1 2AN
BFPO 50 - Stavanger Norway BF1 2AQ
BFPO 52 - Gibraltar BF1 2AR
BFPO 53 - Episkopi Cyprus BF1 2AS
BFPO 57 - Akrotiri Cyprus BF1 2AT
BFPO 58 - Dhekelia Cyprus BF1 2AU
BFPO 59 - Ayios Nikolaos Cyprus BF1 2AW
BFPO 105 - Isolated Detachments and then check out Box numbers on main link above BF1 0AX
BFPO 109 - Ramstein BF1 0DL
" Only use postcodes when ordering items from UK-based websites"
Last edited by Pborn4 on 10/1/2022, 18:11; edited 1 time in total (Reason for editing : " Only use postcodes when ordering items from UK-based websites")
Allana4847 Private
Number of posts : 3 Registration date : 2023-07-11
Subject: Re: BFPO Numbers 11/7/2023, 17:20
BFPO 27 Silberhutte in the Hartz mountains
Pborn4 Brig
Number of posts : 653 Localisation : Between Hannover and Herford, off all main routes Cap Badge : Not even a reservist now - have been Pborn3 Places Served : Oswestry 1965, Paderborn to 1971, NE Dist, Munsterlager from 1974, Sennelager (1976 to 2012) Registration date : 2016-12-16
Subject: Re: BFPO Numbers 11/7/2023, 18:10
GONE! Like Möhnesee and Diemelsee and Kiel Sail Trg
The Harz (German: ) is a highland area in northern Germany. It has the highest elevations for that region, and its rugged terrain extends across parts of Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Thuringia. (You can now ski legally in the East Zone! or take a run ashore to Wernigerode)
Number of posts : 7 Age : 84 Localisation : Sheuen/Celle Cap Badge : Corporal RAOC Places Served : Ironside Barracks Scheuen Registration date : 2019-05-20
Subject: BFPO 23 Was 7 OFP 4/8/2023, 19:26
Allana4847 wrote:
BFPO 27 Silberhutte in the Hartz mountains
trevcurrie@yahoo.co.uk Private
Number of posts : 1 Age : 84 Localisation : ironside barracks scheuen Cap Badge : CPL RAOC Places Served : germany Registration date : 2022-09-19
Subject: Re: BFPO Numbers 5/8/2023, 11:36
celle was 23
Pborn4 Brig
Number of posts : 653 Localisation : Between Hannover and Herford, off all main routes Cap Badge : Not even a reservist now - have been Pborn3 Places Served : Oswestry 1965, Paderborn to 1971, NE Dist, Munsterlager from 1974, Sennelager (1976 to 2012) Registration date : 2016-12-16
Subject: Re: BFPO Numbers 5/8/2023, 16:32
Time for e replay as we go over a page!
PostSubject: Re: BFPO Numbers BFPO Numbers - Page 2 Icon_minitime11/2/2011, 22:54 British Forces Post Office
In the immediate post war era facilities for both official and private mail to and from the UK as well as internally within BAOR were the responsibility of the Royal Engineers Postal Services organisation. Within the British Zone the equivalent of the modern Post Code system was introduced with BAOR numbers being allocated to every major Garrison or RAF Station. Mail for the subordinate or outlying units was redistributed from these nodal points. JPW BAOR 1 - Bad Oeynhausen/HQ BAOR
AACHEN, BAD SALZUFLEN, BRITISH TROOPS BELGIUM, BUNDE, GOTTINGEN, HAMM, HILDEN, HUSUM, ITZEHOE, MUNSTERLAGER, SOLTAU, WOLFENBUTTEL, WUPPERTAL
In 1957 the current world wide system of BFPO numbers was first introduced to British Forces based in Germany. This necessitated some changes to the previous BAOR numbers to both avoid duplication and reflect the major reorganisations being implemented throughout the former British Zone of Germany. JPW
(1) The reason for this was some silly idea of security when 47 Fd Regt RA moved into Mansergh Bks. The idea was that the BFPO number and the unit shouldn't have the same number, despite the fact that the address would have both the BFPO number and the unit title on the envelope.
1) The sequence BAOR 7, BAOR 17, BAOR 27 and BAOR 37 were, initially, not used to avoid confusion surrounding the handwritten English and German style figures 1 and 7.
2) Bad Eilsen/ HQ RAF (G) originally BAOR 1? Allocated separate Post Code in 19?? due to volume of mail.
3) HQ BAOR/HQ RAF (G) moved from Bad Oeynhausen/Bad Eilsen to Rheindahlen in 1954 and were reallocated to BAOR 40.
Number of posts : 42 Localisation : Melksham, Wiltshire Cap Badge : REME Places Served : AAS Arborfield, 5 Inf Wksps then 14 Regt. RA Dortmund, 1 Inf Wksps Aden, 22 Sigs Lippstadt, REBCS then 65CSS RE Hameln, Borden, 15/19 H then 9/12 Lancers Tidworth, 4 ADSR, Herford, QoH then 4/7 DGuards Detmold. Registration date : 2019-03-28
Subject: Re: BFPO Numbers 29/11/2023, 23:11
Bexy wrote:
Pretty sure Lippstadt was BFPO 107
I think you are right, Bexy. I saw, above, that someone had put it as 'BFPO 22' and it didn't look right. It was 22 Sig Regt. there. I was in the LAD '67-'70
Pborn4 Brig
Number of posts : 653 Localisation : Between Hannover and Herford, off all main routes Cap Badge : Not even a reservist now - have been Pborn3 Places Served : Oswestry 1965, Paderborn to 1971, NE Dist, Munsterlager from 1974, Sennelager (1976 to 2012) Registration date : 2016-12-16
Subject: Re: BFPO Numbers 30/11/2023, 02:02
Academic really - Bexy's observation stems from 2008. Once upon a time in the 1960s Lippstadt was part of BFPO16 - the Sennelager/Paderborn conglomerate. It became BFPO 107 during the great petrol/journey rationing period in the 70s when BR had to have authority from Germans for admin journeys (ie non-operational) made more sense for the delivery Bedford to continue on from Sennelager to Lippsptadt 6 days per week outward mornings inward evenings, think the service point was Herford.