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8 unusual facts about British Army of the Rhine


Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum

For example, the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) was assigned to NORTHAG, but the PSC has little or no say in areas such as training, doctrine, logistics, and rules of engagement (ROE).

Army of Occupation

The Army of Occupation of Germany (British), or the British Army of the Rhine, stationed in Germany following World Wars I and II.

Baron Russell of Liverpool

As Deputy Judge Advocate General to the British Army of the Rhine he was one of the chief legal advisers during the war crimes trials held in Nuremberg and Tokyo at the end of the Second World War.

Billy Steel

While still contracted to Morton, Billy Steel played for the British Army of the Rhine, (BAOR) who, in 1944 to 1946, were re-establishing footballing connections with other teams on the Continent.

British Army of the Rhine

In August 1920 Winston Churchill told the British Parliament that the BAOR consisted of approximately 13,360, consisting of, Staff, Cavalry, Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, Infantry, Machine Gun Corps, Tanks, and the usual ancillary services.

Castlemartin Training Area

In 1962 there was a shortage of suitable tank training areas in Northern part of Germany for the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR), an agreement was made whereby armoured training for German recruits was undertaken in the UK so the Bergen-Hohne Training Area could be freed for use by the British Army.

Donald Carr

Carr was born the son of J L Carr, an officer of the Royal Berkshire Regiment, who was serving with the British Army of the Rhine in Germany.

Leonard A. Payne

Leonard Allan Payne died on 18 February 1919 while serving with the Army of Occupation in Germany.


Adrian Liddell Hart

He next joined the Control Service for Germany, attached to the British Army of the Rhine, and the Administrative Staff Headquarters of the Allied Control Council (British sector).

Eric Buller

He later served in the 2nd Battalion Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry as part of the British Rhine Army occupying the Rhineland.

Francis Newall, 2nd Baron Newall

He remained there until successfully completing the course in the middle of 1950, at which point (following further gunnery training) he joined the 11th Hussars, then stationed with the British Army of the Rhine in Osnabrück, Germany.

Stephan Shakespeare

Shakespeare was born as Stephan Kukowski in 1957 in Mönchengladbach, where his German father, a journalist, was the German Press Liaison Officer of Headquarters British Army of the Rhine.

The Cologne Post

Army Post Office S40 was established in Cologne, Germany in 1919 to provide postal support of the first British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) and was closed in 1929 when the force was finally withdrawn from Germany.


see also

Derek Holman

He was an instructor in the Royal Army Educational Corps with the British Army of the Rhine from 1952 to 1954, master at Westminster Abbey Choir School from 1954 to 1956, assistant organist at St Paul's Cathedral from 1956 to 1958, then an organist at Croydon Parish Church from 1958 to 1965.