22 OCA - Report from Dortmund

22nd Regiment Royal Artillery Old Comrades Association

Last Update | Sunday, 26 March, 2006 9:38 AM

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Thanks to Gary Cross for the following news about the camps in Dortmund:

"I tried today to enter Napier Barracks but had no success. The camp is the only one still standing here in Dortmund as all the other camps have been demolished.

At the B1 (dual carriage way that runs through Dortmund) they are building offices and homes and at camp 7 (that's where the big NAAFI stood), they are building new houses. Cornwall school is still there, it is now called Europe school (a German secondary school).

Napier Barracks however was closed in 1995 and has been standing empty since then, it's being turned now into a training ground for Borussia Dortmund FC and they want to keep the Nature reserve. The Golf Club has 19 holes now and they want to build more houses in that area."

Our thanks go to Keith Holderness who administers the 36 Regiment web site and photographer Bill Williams, who have supplied some of the photos for this story. You can visit 36 Regiment's site by clicking here. The photographs from inside Napier Barracks have been published by kind permission of Bernhard Weiss who runs the "Fliegerhorste" (Air- Stations) web site. You can visit Fliegerhorste by clicking here.
	The Entrance to Napier Barracks
	Another photo of the camp entrance
	Outside the families NAAFI
	Barrack block
	The site of the Rapier Dome Trainer
	At the back of the Guardroom
	Inside the Gym
	Statue outside the Officers Mess
	The Officers Mess
	Outside the Guardroom looking towards the QM (T)
	The Rapier Compound
	The Regimental Restaurant
	Regimental Headquarters
	Soldiers NAAFI and Club
	Soldiers NAAFI
	Station Commander's sign
	The Stables