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Salamanca Barracks
 
HQ
HQ 6th Airmobile Brigade 1986-88 (1)
 
RA
16 Light Air Defence Regiment RA 1971-?
 
RE
13 PC Squadron RE
 
 
RAOC
3 Armoured Division Ordnance Company 19?? - September 1983 (2)
 
REME
5 Field Workshops REME 1971-?
5 Armoured Workshop REME
11 Armoured Workshop REME
  Closed 1 September 1993
 
(1) Which went into become 6th Armoured Bde in mid 1988.
(2) Moved to St George's Bks in Minden as part of the divisional re-organisations and was retitled 42 Ordnance Company.
 
 
Named to commemorate Wellington's victory at Salamanca, the barracks had originally been part of the Canadian Infantry/Mechanised Brigade Group which was situated in NW Germany from 1953 until 1970. The first British units to occupy were 16 Light Air Defence Regiment RA and 5 Field Workshops REME who advance parties arrived in 1971. The later were initially stationed at Napier Barracks, Dortmund along side 36th Heavy Air Defence Regiment RA.
 
The following pictures are courtesy of Konversionsflächen in NRW. 
 
I was posted to 5 Field's advance party from basic training at SEME Borden as a Recovery Mechanic in 1971. The Workshop's advance party were first stationed in Dortmund, with living accommodation in Napier Barracks with 36th Heavy Air Defence Regiment RA and the working area for the Workshops at Redesdale Barracks, along side the Civi Workshops there.  I still remember the Civvy canteen, the German rolls were great.
We then moved to Soest and occupied Salamanca Barracks. The tale about the furniture being
smashed up is true, but the best thing was a lot of the married pads thought they could get their hand on some cheap goods from the Canadians that were moving out of the quarters in Soest i.e. TV's, fridge freezers and furniture, but they where wrong. The Canadians just throw them off the quarters balcony's and let them smash to the ground.
 
ex 24170604 Sgt C ZEIL