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History of the 11th Armoured Division
May 1945 to January 1946
 
 
 
Thanks to JPW for his research 
 

May 45 – 11th Armoured Division – HQ Schleswig-Holstein area disbanded Jan 46

 

General Officer Commanding: Major-General George ‘Pip’ Philip Bradley Roberts MC DSO

 

Inns of Court Regiment (Devil’s Own) Reconnaissance attached from 1st Corps Schleswig-Holstein area

15/19 Kings Royal Hussars – Schlamersdorf (Bad Oldesloe) to Kappeln to Belgium Sep 45 then UK

2 Company Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (Machine Gun)

 

CRA:

13 (Honourable Artillery Company) Regiment Royal Horse Artillery

151 (Ayrshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment RA – Bad Oldesloe to Eckernforde Aug 45

75 Anti-Tank Regiment RA to Guards Division Jun 45

58 (Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA

 

CRE:

13 Field Company RE

612 Field Company RE

147 Field Park Company RE

10 Bridging Platoon RE

 

11 Divisional Signals

CO: Lieutenant Colonel MJ Conway

 

Divisional Transport Coy RASC

29 (Armoured Brigade) Coy RASC

115 (Infantry Brigade) Coy RASC

Divisional Ordnance Field Park Coy RAOC

11 Mobile Laundry and Bath Unit RAOC

29 Armoured Brigade Workshop REME

159 Infantry Brigade Workshop REME

with Light Aid Detachments and a Light AA Workshop

18 Light Field Ambulance RAMC

179 Light Field Ambulance RAMC

7 Field Dressing Station RAMC

Field Hygiene Section RAMC

Mobile Dental Unit RAMC

Royal Army Chaplaincy Service

11 Divisional Provost Company CMP

11 Divisional Postal Unit

 

Jun 45 – 65 (Norfolk Yeomanry) Anti-Tank Regiment RA from 7th Armoured Division – Eckernforde

 

29th Armoured Brigade – HQ Schleswig disbanded Jan 46

Commander: Brigadier CBC ‘Roscoe’ Harvey

23 Hussars – Niendorf (Holstein) to Keil to Marine Kaserne later Leicester Barracks Husum disbanded Jan 46

3 Royal Tank Regiment – Neumunster to Johnnistal Aug 45 to Quantock Barracks Flensburg Feb 46 to Schleswig-Holstein Sub Area Jan 46

8 Battalion Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort’s Own) – Kitchener Barracks Schleswig to UK Jan 46

2 Fife and Forfar Yeomanry

 

159th Infantry Brigade – HQ Quantock Barracks Flensburg to 53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division Jan 46

Commander: Brigadier JB Churcher

4 Battalion King’s Shropshire Light Infantry – Hereford or Quantock Barracks Flensburg

1 Battalion Herefordshire Regiment – Hereford Barracks Flensburg

1 Battalion Cheshire Regiment – Gluckstadt to Hereford or Quantock Barracks Flensburg to 53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division Aug 45

CO: Lieutenant Colonel RG Kreyer

 

more research to follow...additions and amendments most welcome...steve@baor-locations.co.uk

 

Information sources

British Army Units 1945 on - Orders of  Battle - WW2Talk

The Royal Corps of Signals a History of its Antecedents and Development (circa 1800-1955) by Major General RFH Nalder CB OBE
The Royal Corps of Signals Unit Histories (1920-2001) by Cliff Lord and Graham E Watson

The British Army in Germany an Organizational History 1947-2004 by Graham E Watson and Richard A Rinald