WW2 relics at Stainton Grove Military Camp, Barnard Castle, DL12 8UJ, UK

Regiments that have been here (Barnard Castle Camps)

	Horse Guards 54th  Royal Armoured Corps (training) - graduates went on to Liverpool or Gouroch (Scotland) and then out to various destinations to fight.  Lancashire Fusiliers 1950 Deerbolt Green Howards 2nd Battalion April 22 1952 -  2 April 1953 Streatlam  - then to Suez  Green Howards 2nd Battalion 1953 Barford (when Battalion was set up) Loyals Battalion 1963 – 65 Deerbolt 54th Armoured Corp – Deerbolt 1943 (left on D-Day plus 4) Black Watch – twice 1956 and 1959(?) - Westwick Gloucestershires – back after Korea South Welsh Borders based first but no camp here until 1942 – lived in the old Ullathorne Mill by the County Bridge until Stainton Camp built Scots Regiment - 51st 7th Hussars Streatlam 1947 (for two years) Cheshire regiment 1949 Streatlam 7th Hussars 1940-41 Stainton Blackwatch 1940-41 Stainton Yorks and Lancs 1944 Deerbolt   King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry came to Barford in 1951 South Staffordshire straight after Dunkirk Leicesters Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) - Deerbolt Royal Northumberland Fusiliers Deerbolt from October 1952 to ?  112th light Ack Reg RA Streatlam and Stainton purely 54th training regiments RAC 1947 2nd Battalion DLI formed 1953 at Deerbolt - 1st and 2nd Regiments amalgamated in 1956. Also said to be there in 1952. RAOC click here for RAOC information: Light Infantry Brigade WW2 12th Royal Lancers, an R.A.C. training regiment - Barford 58th medium regiment, Royal Artillary - Barford 5 Ordnance Field Park RAOC at Stainton 1970 to 1971 - later become 6 OFP and moved to Menden in Germany in Feb 1971  Durham Light Infantry during WW2 2nd Field Regiment RA were stationed here from 1968 - 1971 59th Training Regt., RAC was at Deerbolt in 1947 also said to be at Barford in 1946 58 Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery 24 Airportable Brigade HQ & Signal Squadron, 1970 -1972 A detachment from 223 Fdamb (V) was based at Stainton Grove from 1986 to 1996 when it was disbanded Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 1970 61st training regiment (Hussars?) at Streatlam RHQ Squadron, RAC was at Streatlam 11th Hussars at Barford, 1945 - 47 62nd Royal Armoured Corps (training), at Carlisle? The South Lancashire Regiment, Streatlam Camp. 1955 - 1956  then to Berlin The Cheshire Regiment came to Streatlam Camp from Berlin, 1956 11th Hussars (PAO) Prince Alberts Own, c 1944 Green Howards 1st Battalion November 1952 - March 1953 Humbleton on return from Malaya and at Streatlam in early sixties 1st battalion The Duke of Wellingtons at Streatlam in the sixties A Company 2nd Green Howards, Streatlam Camp, 1952 The Duke of Wellingtons Regiment, Streatlam Camp to Korea late 1952 The York and Lancaster Regiment served at Barnard Castle, 1957. Kings Own Royal Borders 2nd Field Regiment Royal Artillery, 1971 6th Inf. Brigade re-located (to Streatlam Camp) rom the York Barracks in Munster  W/Germany Royal Corps of Signals; 6 Infantry Brigade Headquarter and Signal Squadron, which became 6 Armoured Brigade H Q & Signal Squadron (1968 - 1969) 1 Durham Light Infantry, 1957 1st Battalion East Surrey Add your content here