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