Location: Hildesheim

Name:Hildesheim
Camp:Clive Barracks
Town:Hildesheim
Country:Germany
Type(s):Primary
Notes

Hildesheim school is first mentioned in the "Coronation List".

This is a list of schools that existed in 1952 (but not necessarily in the described location).

The school was in the former Ledebur Kaserne, renamed Clive Barracks.

The pin marks the location of the barracks not the school.

Bill Johnson remembers:
After six years living less than 100 miles from the Equator, it was something of a shock to the system to experience a severe northern hemisphere winter, where the snow lay on the ground from November 1969 until the following Easter. But I must have built up somewhat of a resistance to cold after absorbing the heat in Singapore for six years. When someone took this picture of me in front of Hildesheim school, I remember the staff were staring out of the window in disbelief as I often went out to do playground duty without gloves, scarf or overcoat.

Hildesheim has a very interesting German Fallschirmjäger history.


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