British Army Regiments deployed in West Berlin 1948-1994

Below is a near complete listing of British Army units that would be rotated into West Berlin to maintain the British contribution to Allied Forces Berlin. The Berlin Infantry Brigade maintained forces at four barracks in the British zone of the city which lay cut off from the rest of West Germany deep in the heart of the communist German Democratic Republic. Three of the barracks housed infantry forces and the fourth housed an armored contingent. If you have further information or corrections please feel free to contact us. Please note that all units without a number prefix are the 1st of that respective unit.

Montgomery Barracks

• Worcestershire Regiment – February 1948
• Gordon Highlanders Regiment – May 1949
• Black Watch Regiment – September 1950
• East Yorkshire Regiment – November 1951
• Royal Scots Fusiliers Regiment – July 1953
• Grenadier Guards Regiment – March 1954
• Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders Regiment – March 1955
• Royal Welsh Fusiliers – July 1956
• Royal Scots Regiment – February 1958
• 1/2 East Anglian Regiment – February 1960
• Durham Light Infantry Regiment – July 1961
• Prince of Wales Own Regiment of Yorkshire – June 1963
• 1/1 Green Jackets Regiment (Royal Green Jackets) – April 1965
• Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Regiment (2^nd Light Infantry) – April 1967
• Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders Regiment – April 1969
• Queens Regiment – July 1970
• Worcestershire & Sherwood Foresters Regiment – July 1972
• Parachute Regiment – August 1974
• Green Howards Regiment – August 1976
• 2 Royal Anglian Regiment – August 1978
• Kings Own Royal Border Regiment – January 1981
• 3 Royal Regiment of Fusiliers – March 1983
• Royal Highland Fusiliers – March 1985
• Black Watch Regiment – March 1987
• Royal Welsh Fusiliers – July 1989
• Royal Welsh Fusiliers – July 1992

Brooks Barracks

• 2 Royal Scots Fusiliers – February 1948
• 2 Queens Royal Regiment – February 1949
• Royal Fusiliers Regiment – December 1949
• Kings Liverpool Regiment – February 1951
• Welsh Guards Regiment – June 1952
• Royal Irish Fusiliers – July 1953
• Royal Lincolnshire Regiment – June 1954
• Cheshire Regiment – May 1955
• South Lancashire Regiment – January 1957
• Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Regiment – January 1958
• Kings Own Scottish Borderers Regiment – February 1959
• Welsh Regiment – April 1961
• Somerset & Cornwall Light Infantry Regiment – October 1963
• Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Regiment – October 1965
• Gloucestershire Regiment – October 1967
• 2 Royal Regiment of Fusiliers – October 1969
• Duke of Edinburgh Royal Regiment – July 1971
• Kings Own Scottish Borderers Regiment – May 1973
• Royal Regiment of Wales – May 1975
• 2 Parachute Regiment – May 1977
• Royal Irish Rangers Regiment – June 1979
• 2 Royal Regiment of Fusiliers – April 1981
• Prince of Wales Own Royal Regiment – June 1983
• Devon & Dorset Regiment – April 1985
• Kings Own Scottish Borderers Regiment – February 1987
• 1 Light Infantry Regiment – January 1989
• Gordon Highlanders – June 1991
• Gordon Highlanders – August 1993

Wavell Barracks

• Royal Norfolk Regiment – January 1948
• Royal Welsh Fusiliers – May 1949
• Manchester Regiment – September 1950
• Durham Light Infantry – April 1951
• Royal Scots Regiment – May 1952
• Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Regiment – July 1953
• Manchester Regiment – September 1954
• Black Watch Regiment – January 1956
• Border Regiment – December 1957
• York & Lancaster Regiment – July 1959
• Kings Royal Rifle Corps (2 Green Jackets) – December 1960
• Kings Regiment – July 1962
• East Anglian Regiment (3 Royal Anglian) – July 1964
• Queens Own Highlanders Regiment – August 1966
• Staffordshire Regiment – September 1968
• Cheshire Regiment – November 1970
• Coldstream Guards Regiment – December 1972
• 3 Royal Green Jackets – January 1975
• Welsh Guards Regiment – January 1977
• Grenadier Guards Regiment – July 1979
• 2 Royal Irish Rangers Regiment – December 1981
• Royal Hampshire Regiment – December 1983
• Gloucestershire Regiment – February 1986
• Kings Regiment – February 1988
• Irish Guards Regiment – January 1990
• Queens Lancashire Regiment – March 1992
• Queens Lancashire Regiment – August 1994

Smut Barracks

• 11^th Hussars Regiment & 8^th Hussars Regiment – July 1945 - October 1945
• 11^th Hussars Regiment & 1^st Royal Tank Regiment – October 1945 - February 1946
• 1^st Squadron, Life Guards Regiment – July 1946 – September 1946
• 1^st Squadron, 13/18^th Hussars Regiment – November 1946 – February 1947
• 1^st Squadron, Inns of Court Yeomanry Regiment – February 1947 – May 1947
• 1^st Squadron, Royal Horse Guards Regiment – May 1947 – January 1948
• 1^st Squadron, 11^th Hussars Regiment – February 1948
• A Squadron, Royal Dragoons Regiment – May 1949
• A Squadron, Royal Horse Guards Regiment – March 1950
• 1^st Squadron, 3^rd Hussars Regiment – February 1951
• 1^st Independent Squadron, 1^st Royal Tank Regiment – February 1952
• 2^nd Independent Squadron, 1^st Royal Tank Regiment – July 1953
• B Squadron, 14/20^th Hussars Regiment – February 1958
• 1^st Squadron, 4^th Royal Tank Regiment – November 1960
• 1^st Independent Squadron, 1^st Royal Tank Regiment – November 1964
• 1^st Squadron, Queens Own Hussars Regiment – February 1965
• 1^st Squadron, 1^st Royal Tank Regiment – July 1968
• 1^st Squadron, 9/12^th Lancers Regiment – December 1969
• 1^st Squadron, Queens Dragoon Guards Regiment – December 1970
• A Squadron, 4^th Royal Tank Regiment – December 1972
• B Squadron, 5^th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards Regiment – December 1974
• B Squadron, 1^st Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Regiment – December 1976
• D Squadron, 1^st Royal Hussars Regiment – April 1979
• D Squadron, 4/7^th Dragoon Guards Regiment – February 1981
• D Squadron, 1^st Queens Own Hussars Regiment – April 1983
• B Squadron, 14/20^th Hussars Regiment – May 1985
• D Squadron, 14/20^th Hussars Regiment – December 1987
• C Squadron, 14/20^th Hussars Regiment – September 1988
• C Squadron, 14/20^th Hussars Regiment – September 1991