I was born in BMH Wuppertal and I am trying to locate the actual location so I can visit in in June 2008
Hardrations Let Gen
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Subject: Re: BMH Wuppertal 7/4/2008, 20:02
B.M.H. Wuppertal, was formally "The Queen Elizabeth the Second", British Military Hospital, Wuppertal. This was as in 1953, when the hospital was returned to the german authorities, the City of Wuppertal. Quite possibly in 1948, it was called B.M.H. The Princess Elizabeth Hospital"? Today it is known as the "Bethesda Krankenhaus", which is located on Hainstrasse Number 35, D-42109 Wuppertal, Germany
Rainy LCpl
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Subject: Re: BMH Wuppertal 2/9/2008, 00:51
My daughter Helga was born there 11th Feb 1950 I had been demobbed from the Grenadier Guards in 1946 but returned to Germany with the CCG - Control Commission Germany
Pborn4 Brig
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Subject: Re: BMH Wuppertal 19/11/2021, 19:01
Princess Margaret was a visitor to Wuppertal way back in the days of Black and White Newsreels - 26 May 1955
She presented Colours to the Suffolk Regiment (who looked good in BD and Lee Enfield rifle drill with bayonets) in Harding Barracks, Wuppertal.
The Diedenhofen barracks ( 51 ° 14 ′ 21 ″ N, 7 ° 12 ′ 5 ″ E ) in Wuppertal- Ronsdorf , named after the town of Diedenhofen in Lorraine, was built as a forest barracks from 1937 . The topping-out ceremony was celebrated on September 3, 1939 and, after completion in the spring of 1939, was taken over by Lieutenant Colonel Versen and his 1st Division Cavalry Rifle Regiment. In 1941 the forest barracks was renamed Diedenhofen barracks.
After the Second World War, on April 24, 1946, it was converted into a makeshift hospital with the name " Deutsches Lazarett Wuppertal-Ronsdorf ", and then on July 31, 1951, like the other barracks, it was confiscated and used by the British Armed Forces. During this time it was called "Keightley Barracks", named after General Sir Charles Frederic Keightley (1901–1974). [The Amateur Dramatics Theatre in Dempsey Barracks Schl Neuhaus was named the Keightley Theatre - opened and dedicated by the Mrs Keightley]
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steve LE Maj
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Subject: Re: BMH Wuppertal 20/11/2021, 09:51
77 (British) General Hospital (600 bed) on VE Day 8 May 45 was in Bedburg north-west of Köln in then the US sector, probably Schoss Bedburg (not having a grid reference so cannot confirm)
27 Oct 45 – moved to Hainstraße 35, Wuppertal-Katernberg
23 May 46 – 77 (British) Military Hospital shortly afterwards known as 77 (Wuppertal) British Military Hospital
1 Feb 47 – command from 1st Corps District to HQ BAOR with 2nd Infantry Division for administration the Commanding Officer was Lieutenant Colonel J Mackay-Dick RAMC
1 Apr 48 – Families Wing (60 Beds) was opened
Only have Public Records Office Kew documentation up to early 1949
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Subject: Re: BMH Wuppertal 20/11/2021, 23:39
another source with info (from German) of Wuppertal Sites: