Pborn4
Brig
Number of posts : 659
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: RAF in Bückeburg  18/12/2016, 21:10 | |
| RAF Bückeburg is now the German Air Force station Achmer - Helicopter Trg School,
Christmas 1945 the RAF flying elements had installed themselves in the Schloss at Bückeburg - the Schaumburg-Lippe family are related to Queen Victoria and Prince Phillip- The Schloss and its Summer Garden Fêtes (and Christmas Fayre) are popular in modern times.
Somehow the Christmas Tree installed in the Schloss that Christmas, with real candles and potent spirits in the hands of high jinkers conspired to cause a fire in an upper storey of the Schloss! Fortunate it was a traditional winter and there was snow to help extinguish the blaze.
Last edited by Pborn4 on 1/6/2019, 12:14; edited 1 time in total (Reason for editing : typo) | |
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JPW
Let Gen
Number of posts : 1119
Age : 82
Localisation : Berkshire
Cap Badge : REME
Places Served : Rotenburg Ploen Lippstadt Hamm Wetter Minden Munster Bielefeldt Dusseldorf
Registration date : 2008-11-09
| | Subject: Re: RAF in Bückeburg 19/12/2016, 09:21 | |
| Paddy
Thank you, as I have recorded elsewhere was very familiar with the Schloss in the mid/late 60s (the RAF had long gone). Was the Schloss the Senior Officers' Mess for HQ RAF (G) located over the hill in Bad Eilsen? | |
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Pborn4
Brig
Number of posts : 659
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: RAF in Bückeburg 1/6/2019, 12:17 | |
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