Northumberland Barracks
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3 (West Riding) Reece Regt (8 Northumberland Fusiliers) 1945-1946 command 49 (West Riding) Inf Div (1)
1 Bn Leicestershire Regiment 1945-1946 command 147 Inf Bde of 49 (West Riding) Inf Div (2)
Detachments in Hemer - Iserlohn - Letmathe
Royal Horse Guards (The Blues) Armd Car Regt 1946-1947 command 1 (BR) Corps District (3)
40 Garrison (Hannover) - 41 Garrison (Cologne) - 42 Garrison (Brussels)
201 CRASC ?-1950 (4)
22 Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA 1949-1956 command 2 Inf Div (5)
47 LAA Bty - 53 LAA Bty - 58 LAA Bty
Dec 50: 58 LAA Bty to 53 LAA Regt replaced by 48 Bty from 72 Coast Regt RA
58 Med Regt RA 1956-1959 command 2 Inf Div then 1 Corps Troops until disbandment Oct 59 (6)
118 Med Bty - 175 Med Bty - Z Bty arrives from 10 Regt RA
115 Loc Bty circa 1958 50 Med Regt RA 1959-1964 renamed 50 Regt RA 1960 command 1 AGRA (Field) redesignated 1 Arty Bde (Field) Oct 61(7)
15 Med Bty - 21 Med Bty - 33 Med Bty - 78 Med Bty
50 Missile Regt RA 1964-1993 command 2 Div from 1971 command 1 Arty Bde
15 Missile Bty - 21 Gibralter Missile Bty - 33 Heavy Bty - 78 Heavy Bty replaced by 56 Heavy Bty from 36 Regt Mar 68
1971: 15 Missile Bty in NI
1972: Now all Missile Bty - 33 Bty to JLRAA Apr or Nov 72 - 56 Bty to 27 Regt replaced by 36 Bty Nov 72
1976: Renamed 50 (Missile) Regt RA - 21 Bty moves to 27 Regt
1977: Amalgamated with 24 (Missile) Regt RA command 1 Arty Div from Jan 81 Arty Div
19 (Gibralter) Bty - 15 Missile Bty - 36 (Arcot) Bty - 51 (Kabul) Bty - Granted Freedom of Menden
1985: 51 (Kabul) Bty disbanded
1990: 15 Missile Bty in NI
1992: 36 Bty in NI - Maze Prision
1993: 36 Bty to 40 Regt Mar 93 - 15 Bty to 22 Regt - 19 Bty to 14 Regt
50 (Missile) Regt RA placed in suspended animation 31 March 1993
Barracks closed
(1) Disbanded Apr 46
(2) Apr 46 moved to Horrocks Barracks Schloss Neuhaus command 131 Inf Bde of 7 Armd Div(3) Arrived from Guards Division formed in Brühl Jul 45 from 2 Household Cavalry Regiment replaced by 10 Royal Hussars Epsom Barracks Iserlohn Feb 47
(4) Moved to West Riding Barracks Dortmund as HQ RASC Rhine Area late 1950
(5) Moved to Shorncliffe UK Apr 56
(6) Arrived from Churchill Barracks Lippstadt taking on strength Z Bty who had arrived from 10 Regt RA Ubique Barracks Dortmund.
(7) Arriving from Dundonald Camp Troon Scotland Oct 59
Sources: British Army Units 1945 on - Polar Bear News 14 Dec 45
The following three photographs are courtesy of 50th Missile Club Royal Artillery. Thank you to them.
Front Gate. I wouldn't like to be stagging on that night.
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Guard Room.
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Aerial views of the camp (above and below). .jpg)
Menden Zentrum
More photographs of the Barracks area in more recent time can be found here
I was posted to Northumberland Bks, Menden in Sep 1949. Stationed in the barracks at that time were 22 LAA Regt RA and 201 CRASC. I was with the latter and we occupied accommodation blocks close to the back gate. 201 CRASC moved to West Riding Barracks, Dortmund late in 1950 and were redesignated HQ RASC Rhine Area. 22 LAA Regt RA were still there in 1951 and for some years after. Also in Dortmund in 1950/51 were HQ RASC Rhine Area and 86 Supply Depot RASC
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