StP Beauregard Stab Gren. Reg. 150
STP · Hardelot - Merlimont K.V.A. D1. · AOK 15 Nord Pas de Calais · France
Beauregard, Stab. Gren. Reg. 150, Camiers
Stab Grenadierregiment 150 (Staff of the Grenadierregiment 150)
The Grenadier Regiment 150 was formed on February 1, 1944 near Boulogne from the Reserve Grenadier Regiment 267 and the Reserve Grenadier Battalions 467 and 487. The regiment came under the 49th Infantry Division and was later destroyed in August 1944 after retreating from the Paris area.
Photo "In barracks" where unknown.
StP Beauregard, Stab. Gren. Reg.150, Camiers
StP Beauregard, Stab. Gren. Reg.150, Camiers
Stab. Gren. Reg.150, inside the red square.
5 x Vf51a bunkers.
5 x Vf Personnel bunkers large.
1 x Vf Command bunker
1 x Toilet bunker.
5 x Storage bunkers.
1 x Steel observation tower (removed).
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StP Beauregard, Stab. Gren. Reg.150, Camiers
At Ferme de Beauregard. There was possibly a road block and guard.
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StP Beauregard, Stab. Gren. Reg.150, Camiers
The roadway out to the camp.
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StP Beauregard, Stab. Gren. Reg.150, Camiers
The camp in the far corner. Situated on rising ground back from the sea. This HQ would have had all the Regimental Officers and reserve infantry ready to be used if an invasion had taken place.
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StP Beauregard, Stab. Gren. Reg.150, Camiers
This air photo was taken to search for V weapons sites. ("NOBALL" was the Allied code name for anything to do with V weapons).
The dotted outline is the area of a large hospital, which is still there today. They may thought that the work camp had something to do with a V weapons site and/or possibly StP Hasso.
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StP Beauregard, Stab. Gren. Reg.150, Camiers
After a long walk we arrived at some very scrubby ground and hard to negotiate.
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StP Beauregard, Stab. Gren. Reg.150, Camiers
This is the far end of what would have been a large underground army camp.
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StP Beauregard, Stab. Gren. Reg.150, Camiers
It was very hard going through the undergrowth and you have to be very careful as there are many holes that you can fall down.
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StP Beauregard, Stab. Gren. Reg.150, Camiers
Quite a lot of escape routes were blocked up for safety reasons by pieces of concrete.
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StP Beauregard, Stab. Gren. Reg.150, Camiers
Plan to the best I can do.
Green - Trenches.
Red - Entrance stairs.
Geoportail 1946
StP Beauregard, Stab. Gren. Reg.150, Camiers
The odd chimney hole through the concrete roof structure.
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StP Beauregard, Stab. Gren. Reg.150, Camiers
Then you come up trumps and these were the staircases down into the barracks.
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StP Beauregard, Stab. Gren. Reg.150, Camiers
Stairs down into the barracks. Note the thickness of the concrete roof structure.
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StP Beauregard, Stab. Gren. Reg.150, Camiers
Two large rooms and a kitchen room.
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StP Beauregard, Stab. Gren. Reg.150, Camiers
About four tiers of bunks. The rooms could hold quite a lot of men. I think we worked out that you could get about 30men per room, 60men per bunker. With about five of these Vf bunkers making about 300men.
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StP Beauregard, Stab. Gren. Reg.150, Camiers
An escape tunnel exit going through the wall and then up to the outside.
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StP Beauregard, Stab. Gren. Reg.150, Camiers
'Caution carbon dioxide gas'.
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StP Beauregard, Stab. Gren. Reg.150, Camiers
My elevation of a barrack room.
My Elevation
StP Beauregard, Stab. Gren. Reg.150, Camiers
The stairs out. There were no signs of doors and windows as they were probably stolen at the end of the war.
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StP Beauregard, Stab. Gren. Reg.150, Camiers
Vf Unterstand plan showing the stairs down and the three escape hatches each end and one in the kitchen.
Plan by kurt
StP Beauregard, Stab. Gren. Reg.150, Camiers
Plan of the barrack bunkers showing the rooms.
Plans Kurt
StP Beauregard, Stab. Gren. Reg.150, Camiers
Roof of the bunker, just shows how dangerous it is walking through the bushes.
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StP Beauregard, Stab. Gren. Reg.150, Camiers
On this single bunker it has a light well, allowing light to enter the bunker. The middle escape ladder can be seen.
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StP Beauregard, Stab. Gren. Reg.150, Camiers
Escape steel ladder out of the light well. The way we entered the bunker.
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StP Beauregard, Stab. Gren. Reg.150, Camiers
The light well showing the two kitchen windows and three windows of the far room.
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StP Beauregard, Stab. Gren. Reg.150, Camiers
Kitchen windows. There probably would have been wooden floor boards and window frames. But all removed.
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StP Beauregard, Stab. Gren. Reg.150, Camiers
The kitchen and the chimney.
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StP Beauregard, Stab. Gren. Reg.150, Camiers
The square holes are for blocks of wood that would have been removed and bolts cemented into the hole to hold up bunks.
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StP Beauregard, Stab. Gren. Reg.150, Camiers
Lobby area with kitchen behind.
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StP Beauregard, Stab. Gren. Reg.150, Camiers
Plan of the HQ bunker.
Plans Kurt
StP Beauregard, Stab. Gren. Reg.150, Camiers
One of the stairs.
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StP Beauregard, Stab. Gren. Reg.150, Camiers
Looking up the stairs.
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StP Beauregard, Stab. Gren. Reg.150, Camiers
One of the uncovered escapes.
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StP Beauregard, Stab. Gren. Reg.150, Camiers
This one half covered escapes.
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StP Beauregard, Stab. Gren. Reg.150, Camiers
Entrance steps.
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StP Beauregard, Stab. Gren. Reg.150, Camiers
Entrance steps.
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StP Beauregard, Stab. Gren. Reg.150, Camiers
Looking into the lobby and the kitchen with nice pink walls..
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StP Beauregard, Stab. Gren. Reg.150, Camiers
'Caution carbon dioxide gas'.
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StP Beauregard, Stab. Gren. Reg.150, Camiers
Barrack room.
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StP Beauregard, Stab. Gren. Reg.150, Camiers
On this wall is an escape, a steel door would be fitted to close off the entrance and the hole filled with sand (that is still in this one). To get out, you would open the steel door and scoop out the sand and then crawl through the tunnel and climb the steel ladder to the top. Easy!.
Details of the painting on the walls.
'Be Careful when talking! Enemy hears!'
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StP Beauregard, Stab. Gren. Reg.150, Camiers
The painted walls in white show that there may have had fittings on these walls and then painted around them. What was here we have no idea.
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StP Beauregard, Stab. Gren. Reg.150, Camiers
When building the bunkers square holes were left in the walls and then bolts cemented into the holes. These would hold a bracket for bunk beds..
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StP Beauregard, Stab. Gren. Reg.150, Camiers
Klappbelten in Befestigungsanlagen mit Kopfteil (System Pieper).
Folding beds fastening systems with view elevation(System Pieper).
Red are the bolts into the concrete.
O.K.H./JnFestIII
StP Beauregard, Stab. Gren. Reg.150, Camiers
The wooden shuttering in the roof and an asbestos chimney pipe for the heating fire.
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StP Beauregard, Stab. Gren. Reg.150, Camiers
The way out.
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StP Beauregard, Stab. Gren. Reg.150, Camiers
How to enter the bunker from an escape ladder..
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