Mindenwas

Subject: Mindenwas 30/10/2009, 09:39

anyone in Minden 1964-1965 with the Black Watch?

Subject: Re: Mindenwas 30/10/2009, 15:37

I was there 64/65 but not with the Black Watch, I was at HQ 11 Bde. The MQ block behind ours was all Black Watch families.

Subject: Re: Mindenwas 30/10/2009, 15:38

I was there 64/65 but not with the Black Watch, I was at HQ 11 Bde. The MQ block behind ours was all Black Watch families.

No idea why this got posted twice!!

Subject: Re: Mindenwas 1/11/2009, 21:08

There was MQ,s behind the camp Elizabeth Bks, out the back gate,there also was a good beir bar where we were made very welcome.was there last year and the bar is now a food shop.Waterloo St there was a lot of MQ,s.
Does any one have any knowledge of the POW camp that was in Minden during the first World War?
Joe

Subject: Re: Mindenwas 2/11/2009, 21:57

26th Foot Regiment (Cameronians or Scottish Rifles were in Elizabeth Bks,there tour was cut short due to their antics down town,the Black Watch took over the barracks in 1964 and were there till 1969,there was a UN tour to Cyprus,during their period in Minden, but there was a rear party who looked after the Bks and the MQ,s

Subject: Re: Mindenwas 11/12/2009, 10:43

blairgowrie wrote:: There was MQ,s behind the camp Elizabeth Bks, out the back gate,there also was a good beir bar where we were made very welcome.was there last year and the bar is now a food shop.Waterloo St there was a lot of MQ,s.
Does any one have any knowledge of the POW camp that was in Minden during the first World War?
Joe

If this link is correct, the POW Camp was located in what was St George's Bks. When I was in Kingsley in the late 80's, St George's was home to 4ADTR, 32 Ord Coy and 664 Sqn AAC.

Can't vouch for the accuracy of that link as I took it from google.

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Subject: Re: Mindenwas 12/12/2009, 14:11

Thanks Rocky
I am a member of the Great War Site,so have read this before, I go to Minden regularly, always looking for information on the POW Camp.
Yours
Joe

Subject: Re: Mindenwas 12/12/2009, 14:35

blairgowrie wrote:: Thanks Rocky
I am a member of the Great War Site,so have read this before, I go to Minden regularly, always looking for information on the POW Camp.
Yours
Joe

Have we not been here before Smile

Paul.

Subject: Re: Mindenwas 12/12/2009, 20:56

Hello Paul

in what way???
Joe

Subject: Re: Mindenwas 12/12/2009, 22:58

blairgowrie wrote:: Hello Paul

in what way???
Joe

Actually Joe, I cannot remember.

But the mention of a POW Camp in Minden, and the Barracks that it was possibly at stirs a memory. I don't know where from though!!

Paul.

Subject: Re: Mindenwas 13/12/2009, 09:41

The great War site has quite a lot on Minden.
Joe