Elizabeth Barracks 1949 - 50

I have just stumbled here - as I approach 90 in September - oooh I am OLLLLDDDD!
I read up on Elizabeth Barracks and noticed the 1st Batt. Rifle Brigade is not mentioned. I was stationed there from March 1949 to April 1950. that was when we served our National Service for only 18 months. I am unsure when the Rifle Brigade moved in and out, but maybe I am about the oldest %$#@^& still around!!! Any other old codger still about? I did my basic training in the KRRC at a training ground near Winchester. (Bushfield camp.) The memories keep flooding back. Perhaps some historian can update the denizens of Elizabeth Barracks.
Now to make old soldiers cringe - - - I served 22 years in the Royal Canadian Navy!

Welcome Les and thanks for your post, the webmaster is rebuilding the main website so as yet changes cannot be made, my area of research with help from forum members is VE Day to 1 Mar 49, so can add the following details for Elizabeth Barracks formerly Gneisenau Kaserne, Minden:

6 Jun 45 – 1st Special Wireless Group, Royal Signals of General Headquarters Troops, to near Rendsburg in Schleswig-Holstein 24 Apr 46, relieved by 2nd Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers – 157th Infantry Brigade of 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division, to Mönchengladbach 15 Jun 46, relieved by 1st Battalion King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry – 131st Lorried Infantry Brigade of 7th Armoured Division – redesignated 31st Infantry Brigade 31 Dec 46 – redesignated 31st Lorried Infantry Brigade 15 Mar 47 – redesignated 31st Independent Infantry Brigade of Hannover District 15 Jan 48, to United Kingdom 17 Feb 48, relieved by 1st Battalion Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort’s Own), to Trenchard Barracks Celle Apr 51, relieved by 1st Battalion Essex Regiment.

https://britisharmyingermany.com

Les

Welcome aboard, presumably you have a longstanding connection with HMCS/CFB Esquimalt?

I was very familiar with Minden Garrison in the nineteen sixties.

Elizabeth Barracks, (Grillepark)  Minden  2020  Old Folks Home, Shopping centre, Medical Centres,
Regt Sq - Car Park,  Sports Field - Housing Estate
https://www.google.com/maps/@52.2858651,8.9506538,182m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en-GB

Some photos from my collection

http://www.edwardboyle.com/EB/Misc/RAPC/RAPCmisc/Cameronians/Cameronians%20Minden%20Pics/Page.html

Ed, Thanks for presenting your photos to the site.

Some great quality photos to be seen, especially when viewed on a big screen monitor and not a phone.

Not often one saw the 1 Ton Armored Pig during pre NI days .

Alan
Ex Reme VM