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the rafts were in position, but casualties were so heavy that the CRE of 43rd
Division, Lt-Col Tom Evill, temporarily withdrew his men. In the afternoon the enemy fire slackened, and the Class 9 bridge (named 'David') was complete by 17.20. Light traffic began to flow, but with little hope of the Bailey bridge ('Goliath') being ready quickly, the Corps Chief Engineer, Brig B.C. Davey, ordered a Bailey pontoon raft to be built as a ferry. With all of the available bridging engineers fully employed, Davey set 207th Fd Park Co to start unloading equipment and reconnoitring approaches while specialist sappers were called up from the rear. The first vehicle rafted across was an RE bulldozer to prepare a ramp; however, it became bogged down and a new ramp had to be built. By 06.00 on 27 August the first tanks were being ferried across to drive off German counter-attacks.
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during the night of 24/25 September, with 204 Fd Co ferrying across more of the Polish paratroopers and 4th Bn
Dorsets using the remaining stormboats together with 20 more assault bats due to arrive from the rear. However, in the darkness two of the lorries bringing the boats took a wrong turning and were captured by the enemy, two more slipped off the muddy road, and only one arrived safely, bringing boats but no paddles. The crossing of the Poles was therefore cancelled and all the boats concentrated for 4th Dorset. Under heavy fire only a few of the boats made it, and only a handful of the infantry reached the Airborne perimeter. Although 204 Fd Co got about 2 tons of stores across, all the available DUKWs were bogged.
1107:. It emerged that the gap in the road was in fact two craters, too long for the Bailey on skids, and the fascines failed to provide a passable crossing for tracked vehicles, despite the efforts of 260th Fd Co. However, the AVRE bridgelayer was successful in bridging the ditch some 50 yards (45 m) from the crater, and the Crocodiles, tanks and infantry passed over. The redundant Bailey section on the road was pulled back with difficulty before 260 Fd Co's lorries could begin delivering rubble. Under heavy fire they constructed a crossing for wheeled vehicles by midday on 9 March. Xanten fell by the end of the day and by 10.40 on 11 March, no Germans remained west of the
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903:('Operation Loopy'). Bridging the river would be a major operation, and the force was split into three large convoys of divisional troops, engineers and bridging equipment. 43rd Divisional Engineers were in the first, the Assault Group, which set off early on 24 August. En route, the bridges over the Eure at Pacy had been destroyed, but this had been planned for, and extra Bailey equipment had been taken. While 260th Fd Co dealt with the craters and boobytrapped roadblocks, 11th Fd Co from XXX Corps spent the night assembling the Bailey bridge. At first light the convoy drove on to the Seine at full speed.
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1076:', regarded as the turning-point of the operation. At the foot of the escarpment lay an anti-tank ditch that had to be crossed before an attack could be launched on Goch. 204 Field Co and two platoons of 260 Fd Co were ordered to prepare six crossings during the night of 17/18 February. Five were completed by dawn but the sixth, at a road crossing, took longer, and lorries delivering material after daybreak came under fire before it was completed for
853:. 204th Fd Co discovered how strong the opposition would be when No 1 Platoon found itself under heavy machine gun fire from both flanks while clearing the route to Le Plessis Grimault at the foot of Mont Pinçon. They deployed to attack but found their firepower inadequate and the company commander withdrew the platoon by sections to the vehicles, aboard which they then shot their way through, followed by 207th Field Park Company's
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distinguished by a '2/' prefix. An additional 1/3rd (Wessex) Field
Company and its 2nd Line had also been formed before the end of September. Later, the 2nd Line were sent overseas and replaced by 3rd Line or Reserve units. At least one such unit, later designated 508th (Wessex) Reserve Field Company, was formed in January 1917 but was probably absorbed into the central training organisation after August.
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site there were 16 assault boats manned by 43rd
Divisional Engineers and 21 motorised stormboats provided by the Canadians. Throughout the night, partly shielded by darkness and rain but under heavy mortar fire, the sappers crossed and recrossed the river bringing back a steady stream of wounded or exhausted men. Over 2000 men of 1st Airborne were evacuated, but few of the 4th Dorsets could be found.
927:, until 260 Fd Co had bulldozed ramps in the river bank. 553rd and 204th Fd Companies began work on the bridge after an approach had been bulldozed under intense machine gun and mortar fire. Close support rafts built by 553rd Fd Co were taken over next morning by 15th (Kent) GHQT RE to continue the ferrying operation and support the hard-pressed assault troops on the far side.
505:. The party moved out from Neohori bridge before dawn on 23 August and burned two out of three target bridges over the Angista before being attacked. A planned movement to bridges further away was abandoned, but one party of sappers and mounted infantry slipped upstream unseen and destroyed the third Angista bridge.
250:, with the 1st Somerset providing G and H Companies at Nailsea and I Company at Weston-super-Mare. The EVC titles were abandoned in 1888, when the units became 'Engineer Volunteers, Royal Engineers', proclaiming their affiliation to the Regular RE, and then simply 'Royal Engineers (Volunteers)' in 1896.
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The evacuation proceeded the following night under the control of 43rd
Division's CRE, Lt-Col W.C.A. Henniker. He had 260 Fd Co and 23rd Canadian Fd Co operating a boat ferry to the Airborne perimeter, and another manned by 553 Fd Co and 20 Canadian Fd Co at the site of 4th Dorsets' crossing. At each
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Division following up was responsible for assault crossings and bridging where necessary. A huge number of sappers were assembled, with 2277 vehicles to carry the necessary equipment. The operation began on 17 September and 43rd Division passed through Guards Armoured after Nijmegen
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During the morning of 26 August, 553rd and 204th Fd
Companies completed the rear trestle and approach to the bridge, but when attempts were made to bring in the rafts to form the first bridge, they were raked by fire in mid-stream and about two-thirds of the crews became casualties. By mid-day half
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was ordered to attack across a pontoon bridge laid by No 4 Section of 1/2nd Wessex Fd Co, but in the dark they found the stream was too wide. The infantry were already exhausted from carrying the pontoons, which had to be left hidden when the force withdrew. A second attempt was made in thick fog on
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Airborne Division made an unopposed landing at Taranto on 7 September 1943, quickly securing the 'heel' of Italy. Sections of the railway were still working, and 'an enterprising patrol, travelling in a train driven by a sapper of 261st Field Park Company, raided deeply into enemy territory and
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previously laid by 84th
Division. 'By the morning of 14 November, 204 Fd Co had picked up a considerable number of these American mines and loaded them on lorries. Major Evill, the Company Commander, decided to dump them near the Custom House on the German border, where 129 Brigade Headquarters was
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across the demolished road bridge. They found that the bridge abutments were too small to take the baseplates, which had to be set back, meaning that a 120-foot (37 m) span rather than 80 foot (25 m) was required. Work could not be started until daylight and it took two days to clear all
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Triangle, and thanks to the weight of artillery and armoured support it took its objectives with little opposition. A large crater on the main road revealed in aerial photographs caused concern, and the sappers had constructed a large Bailey bridge ('Sydney') on sledges to push into position. Only
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Struma Valley, the only significant action occurring when the division took part in the capture of
Homondos on 14 October. The front became active again in September 1918 when the Allies began the final offensive and 27th Division was engaged in the capture of the Roche Noire Salient, followed by
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German shellfire continued, with 'David' receiving a direct hit that sank two boats and caused a traffic delay of one and three-quarter hours, and another shell causing 20 casualties among sappers working on 'Goliath'. The latter was open to traffic by 19.30 and a second Class 40 Bailey bridge by
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By 14 August the division had pushed to the north bank of the River Noireau, where the crossings had been measured by the RE Reconnaissance Party. During the night of 15/16 August the infantry waded across and established a bridgehead, while 204 Fd Co advanced with a waterproofed bulldozer, three
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Preparations for the attack continued with the sappers constructing tracks across the muddy country, which were named 'Savile Row', 'Bond Street' (after famous London streets) and 'Wyvern Road' (from the divisional badge). After six days of heavy fighting (18–23 November), including driving off
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It was now recognised that the Airborne position across the river was untenable, and that assault bridging was unfeasible under direct enemy observation, so the decision was made to evacuate what remained of 1st Airborne. The plan was for 43rd Division to take a firmer grip on the opposite bank
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On 31 August 1914, the formation of 2nd Line units for each existing TF unit was authorised. Initially these were formed from men who had not volunteered for overseas service, together with the recruits who were flooding in. The titles of these units would be the same as the original, but
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when warning orders were received on 29 July and by the time war was declared on 4 August the division was already at its war stations, defending the ports of southern England. Full mobilisation followed, and by 10 August the division was back on Salisbury Plain undergoing war training.
536:. No 4 Section erected the bridge in 10 minutes, but the attackers were beaten back. A renewed attack at dawn on 7 December also failed, the bridge being destroyed by Bulgarian shellfire, even though the Wessex sappers discovered that the stream was only waist-deep and could be forded.
1149:, where 204th Fd Co incurred severe casualties bridging the river under shellfire. The following day the division decisively crushed the last organised counter-attack against its troops. For the rest of the month 43rd Division protected the left flank of XXX Corps' drive towards
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55th Division had been a home defence and training formation on a low establishment for most of the war. Although it was raised to a higher establishment in 1944 when the two Wessex RE companies joined, it never went overseas, and served in Home Forces until the end of the war.
494:) and the cyclist company, went out from the Struma bridgehead at Neohori, and blew up the first bridge early in the morning of 20 August. The second bridge was damaged enough to stop trains crossing. The party withdrew with only one officer and one man wounded.
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the booby-trapped mines, 204 Fd Co losing a complete section of men. Lieutenant Martin and Sapper Murphy discovered that the mines had a new tamper-proof TMIZ 43 igniter, which led to a new recovery drill throughout the army, probably saving hundreds of lives.
1127:, after which 43rd Wessex was to pass through and continue the advance. However, 43rd Divisional Engineers was allotted to assist 51st (Highland) in the crossing on 25 March, before rejoining its division when it concentrated on the far side on 27 March.
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under heavy fire and suffered severe casualties, but the success could not be exploited. As the division established itself along the valley of the Odon the engineers built tank bridges to avoid bottlenecks over the few available stone bridges.
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at Grasburg, which the leading infantry crossed while 204th Fd Co repaired the road bridge. The next day the advance was held up by numerous large craters in the causeway carrying the road, each of which had to be bridged under fire from
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Three small detachments from 261 (Airborne) Field Park Company went to Arnhem during Operation Market Garden, attached to the field company with each of the division's three brigades. They were flown into the Landing Zone by glider from
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on 22 December. The rest of the division arrived by the end of January. The force was part of the British intervention in the complex situation of independent regimes that had emerged in the Caucasus region following the collapse of the
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was signed by Bulgaria on 29 September 1918, ending hostilities on the Macedonian Front. 27th Division withdrew back down the Struma, but in December it embarked for the Black Sea, the first brigade accompanied by 17th Fd Co reaching
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The new 45th Infantry Division was formed on 7 September 1939 as a 2nd Line duplicate of 43rd Division. It was placed on a lower establishment in December 1941, and disbanded in August 1944. Its engineers were organised as follows:
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Immediately after the outbreak of war, a new 45th Infantry Division was formed (7 September 1939), once again as a 2nd Line duplicate of 43rd Division. The 1st and 2nd Line Field Companies were mixed across the two divisions.
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ferried the assault troops across, and other RE units prepared to build a heavy Bailey bridge, 43rd Divisional Engineers had the task of constructing a Class 9 Folding Boat Equipment (FBE) bridge on rafts. It emerged that
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for the rest of the war. The field companies later received the numbers 503 and 504, and the signal company became the 58th. They served with the division on the Western Front from February 1917 until the end of the war.
1257:). For this assault, 261st Fd Park Co made special equipment, including dummy parachutists. The night before the landings, part of the company flew with the RAF scattering these dummies over various parts of the island.
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4th Bn Dorsets cross 'David', the Class 9 FBE bridge at Vernon, 27 August 1944. The numbers 49 and 51 either side of the Wessex Wyvern divisional badge are the identification serials of 204 and 553 Field Companies
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1087:. Again, the town was protected by an anti-tank ditch. Lieutenant-Colonel Henniker had 553 Fd Co build a 70-foot (20 m) Bailey on skids improvised by 207 Fd Pk Co. This was towed down the road by two
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established'. During the afternoon some 700 of these mines exploded simultaneously, killing 14 sappers of No 1 Platoon, wounding six others and fatally injuring the brigade commander, Brig G.H.L. Mole.
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in Somerset on 26 February 1916. In February 1917 they were numbered 502nd and 505th respectively. They served with the division on the Western Front from February 1917 until the end of the war.
1272:, accompanied by senior officers, visits men of the 261st Field Park Company, Royal Engineers, 1st Airborne Division, March 1944. Stood second from the left is the division's GOC, Major General
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This division was organised in November 1941 and 261st Field Park Company was one of the first units to join. It trained in the UK until April 1943 when it sailed to North Africa to prepare for
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on 18 September (the second day of the operation). Detachment 2 was unable to join 1st Parachute Squadron RE, which was cut off at Arnhem bridge, but the other two made contact successfully.
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For the pursuit, 43rd Division was organised in five groups led by the Armoured Thrust Group, accompanied by 260th Fd Co. This force had to fight through tenacious rearguards from the German
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During the winter of 1914–15, three new Regular Army Divisions were formed in England from the units returned from India. The Wessex Divisional Engineers were assigned to the first of these,
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27th Division was not involved in the Second Battle of Doiran, and little else happened on the British part of the Macedonian Front in 1917. 27th Division spent almost two years in the
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troops, the objectives were taken. The divisional engineers struggled to get roads open through the mud and destroyed villages, and the weather brought the end of the operation.
1007:(the divisional machine-gun battalion), they constituted the 'close bridge garrison', with little between themselves and active German forces a short distance upstream. German
490:, to delay the Bulgarian advance towards the Struma. A mixed party of six officers and 77 other ranks, drawn from 17th Field Company, RE, the divisional mounted squadron (
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following an invasion scare in 1859 saw the creation of many Rifle, Artillery and Engineer Volunteer units composed of part-time soldiers eager to supplement the Regular
1123:) involved 'probably the largest accumulation of engineer equipment ever assembled in the history of the Army'. The assault on XXX Corps' front was to be carried out by
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and fought their way across the low-lying country known as 'The Island', leading elements reaching the banks of the Lower Rhine late on 23 September. By now the
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around the captured villages before Bulgarian counter-attacks came in after dark. The attack was then continued to extend the position to include the village of
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tipper lorries of flexboards, four landing stage units and two boat units, and No 1 Platoon got to work on clearing mines, building a tank ford and a
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on 17 February 1916. In August the forward Allied troops were thrown into disarray by a Bulgarian attack, and the British took up positions along the
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Lieutenant-Colonel Keen assumed the role of CRE of 27th Division on 23 November 1914 and the engineers joined the division at Magdalen Hill Camp,
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and a few Polish paratroopers. Of the detachment from 261 Co, two died, 12 were evacuated, and six remained missing at the end of the operation.
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A new 1/3rd Wessex Field Company was raised in September 1914 and the 2/3rd by the end of the year. They were eventually assigned to the
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In March 1945 the company was redesignated an Airborne Park Squadron and it accompanied the division to Norway at the end of the war (
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by a footbridge, while 553 Fd Co built a Class 40 Bailey Bridge before the end of the day. The division's further advance to capture
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succeeded in attaching explosive charges to the bridges under cover of darkness, which caused damage that the sappers had to repair.
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using bridges captured by airborne forces. Anticipating that many of the bridges would be destroyed and would hold up the advance of
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1111:and they blew their last bridges over the river.
955:43rd Division had a crucial role in the plan for
706:205th (Wessex) Field Company at Weston-super-Mare
203:and at Arnhem. Their successors served on in the
3060:
2949:, Chatham: Institution of Royal Engineers, 1958.
2723:William Edward David Allen & Paul Muratoff,
837:After weeks of bitter fighting around Hill 112 (
367:On 24 September 1914, at the special request of
1205:259th (Wessex) Field Company, 2nd Line unit at
654:57th (2nd West Lancashire) Divisional Engineers
275:When the Volunteers were subsumed into the new
2956:, London: Hamish Hamilton, 1974/Coronet 1975,
2621:
2619:
2545:
2543:
2533:
2531:
2521:
2519:
2295:
2293:
1652:"Discussion of RE TF units at Great War Forum"
768:260th (Wessex) Field Company 2nd Line unit at
719:The signal company was transferred to the new
478:27th Division completed its disembarkation at
2892:Orders of Battle: Second World War, 1939–1945
2837:From the Spring of 1917 to the End of the War
2048:
2046:
2044:
1861:
1859:
1215:562nd Field Company (joined 1 January 1940 –
1083:43rd Division was next tasked with capturing
709:206th (Hampshire) Field Company at Portsmouth
323:No 3 (South Western) Section attached to the
2857:, 2nd Edn, Bradford: Pen & Sword, 2011,
2557:
2555:
2509:
2507:
1637:
1635:
1633:
1631:
1621:
1619:
1617:
1615:
1596:
1594:
1548:Weston-super-Mare at the Drill Hall Project.
1177:
821:43rd (Wessex) Division finally embarked for
712:207th (Wessex) Field Park Company at Bath –
416:, TF, on 4 December 1914; left 17 March 1915
386:
291:. The latter unit was organised as follows:
235:, where the headquarters was moved in 1873.
2999:Graham E. Watson & Richard A. Rinaldi,
2683:256 to 300 Sqns RE at British Army 1945 on.
2672:226 to 255 Sqns RE at British Army 1945 on.
2661:100 to 225 Sqns RE at British Army 1945 on.
2616:
2587:
2585:
2540:
2528:
2516:
2290:
2279:
2277:
2183:
2181:
2179:
2089:
2087:
2085:
1831:
1829:
18:2/2nd Wessex Field Company, Royal Engineers
2041:
1856:
1753:
1751:
1696:
1694:
1692:
1690:
1688:
1686:
1684:
1682:
1584:
1582:
1580:
1445:
1443:
1441:
1439:
438:, on the 27th. The division embarked from
225:1st Somersetshire Engineer Volunteer Corps
3069:Military units and formations in Somerset
2927:, Barnsley: Pen & Sword Books, 2014,
2656:
2654:
2652:
2552:
2504:
2495:
1670:
1628:
1612:
1591:
780:207th (Wessex) Field Park Company at Bath
329:No 4 (Hampshire) Section attached to the
2633:
2631:
2603:1 Airborne Div orbat at Pegasus Archive.
2582:
2274:
2222:
2220:
2176:
2082:
1967:
1965:
1826:
1385:appointed to Wessex Divisional Engineers
1263:
1240:
1181:
929:
905:
885:
859:
757:43rd (Wessex) Divisional insignia (WWII)
752:
2994:History of the Corps of Royal Engineers
2826:The 43rd Wessex Division at War 1944–45
2772:, London: Yale University Press, 2013,
2638:80–117 Rgts RE at British Army 1945 on.
1778:
1760:
1748:
1679:
1577:
1436:
256:1st Devonshire and Somersetshire RE (V)
223:in time of need. One such unit was the
14:
3061:
3016:Royal Engineers (Volunteers) 1859–1908
2970:, London: War Office, 7 November 1927.
2889:
2855:Assault Crossing: The River Seine 1944
2649:
1883:Essame, p. 4 & Appendix C, p. 278.
1514:
1512:
1510:
1508:
1357:Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve
1307:). It was disbanded in November 1945.
916:15th (Kent) GHQ Troops Royal Engineers
633:2/1st Wessex Divisional Signal Company
601:45th (2nd Wessex) Divisional Engineers
454:for almost a year, taking part in the
371:, the Wessex Division (later numbered
2628:
2217:
1962:
1472:
1470:
1468:
1466:
1464:
1372:Field Marshal Sir Lintorn Simmons, RE
1119:Preparations for the Rhine crossing (
1052:43rd Division took part in operation
32:1st Somersetshire Engineer Volunteers
1362:
1170:the next day was forestalled by the
765:204th (Wessex) Field Company at Bath
703:204th (Wessex) Field Company at Bath
559:and pursuit to the Strumica Valley.
532:the morning of 6 December by 2nd Bn
430:1st Wessex Divisional Signal Company
410:1/1st South Midland Field Company –
270:
3030:
2592:HQ RE War Diary at Pegasus Archive.
1505:
1331:, with the following organisation:
1091:of 81st Assault Squadron, RE, from
680:on 9 December 1915, and 2/3rd from
674:57th (2nd West Lancashire) Division
664:57th (2nd West Lancashire) Division
281:Devonshire Fortress Royal Engineers
24:
2757:, Aldershot: Ogilby Trusts, 1982,
2492:Watson & Rinaldi, pp, 93, 140.
1727:Wakefield & Moody, pp. 99–109.
1461:
1353:43rd (Wessex) Division/District RE
1344:260 Field Squadron, disbanded 1956
1317:VIII Corps Troops, Royal Engineers
1172:German surrender at Lüneburg Heath
1072:overlooking the fortified town of
988:across to reinforce 1st Airborne.
790:260th Fd Co usually operated with
749:43rd (Wessex) Divisional Engineers
729:Hampshire Fortress Royal Engineers
516:. 1/1st Wessex Fd Co then erected
171:was a volunteer unit of Britain's
34:43rd (Wessex) Divisional Engineers
25:
3080:
2579:Pakenham-Walsh, Vol.IX, pp. 13–4.
1805:Watson & Rinaldi, pp. 90, 91.
1745:Allen & Muratoff, pp. 498–99.
1736:Wakefield & Moody, pp. 114–8.
1559:Exeter at the Drill Hall Project.
1237:1st Airborne Divisional Engineers
1080:to pass through for the assault.
739:
619:The divisional engineers for the
242:. With the reorganisation of the
3018:, Wembley: R.A. Westlake, 1983,
2973:Alan Wakefield and Simon Moody,
2908:Cliff Lord & Graham Watson,
2705:
2702:Watson & Rinaldi, pp. 300–1.
2696:
2687:
2676:
2665:
2607:
2596:
2573:
2564:
2486:
2477:
2468:
1351:The regiment was reorganised as
1261:released 300 prisoners of war'.
1245:British Airborne units' insignia
1095:, accompanied by an AVRE with a
1064:On 16 February 1945, as part of
1014:
881:
725:43rd (Wessex) Divisional Signals
514:Karajakoi Bala and Karajakoi Zir
445:
70:
53:
2869:British Army Handbook 1939–1945
2828:, London: William Clowes, 1952.
2459:
2450:
2441:
2432:
2423:
2414:
2405:
2396:
2387:
2378:
2365:
2356:
2347:
2338:
2329:
2320:
2311:
2302:
2265:
2256:
2247:
2238:
2229:
2208:
2199:
2196:Pakenham-Walsh, pp. 401–3, 406.
2190:
2167:
2154:
2145:
2136:
2127:
2118:
2109:
2100:
2073:
2064:
2055:
2028:
2019:
2010:
2001:
1992:
1983:
1974:
1953:
1944:
1935:
1922:
1913:
1904:
1895:
1886:
1877:
1868:
1847:
1838:
1817:
1808:
1799:
1787:
1769:
1739:
1730:
1721:
1712:
1703:
1644:
1603:
1563:
1552:
1541:
1537:Bath at the Drill Hall Project.
1530:
1199:55th (West Lancashire) Division
1186:45th Divisional insignia (WWII)
1027:), using 43rd Division and the
984:used these to ferry men of the
734:
350:
2943:History of the Royal Engineers
1521:
1491:
1482:
1452:
1427:
1418:
700:HQ at Upper Bristol Road, Bath
591:Democratic Republic of Georgia
587:Azerbaijan Democratic Republic
422:Regular unit transferred from
345:
13:
1:
2717:
2711:Watson & Rinaldi, p. 289.
2693:Watson & Rinaldi, p. 302.
2625:Watson & Rinaldi, p. 292.
2570:Pakenham-Walsh, Vol.IX, p. 5.
2549:Watson & Rinaldi, p. 144.
2537:Watson & Rinaldi, p. 165.
2525:Watson & Rinaldi, p. 161.
1874:Watson & Rinaldi, p. 185.
1865:Watson & Rinaldi, p. 170.
1823:Watson & Rinaldi, p. 139.
1814:Watson & Rinaldi, p. 104.
1518:Lord & Watson, pp. 151–2.
1056:in January 1945 to clear the
864:British D7 armoured bulldozer
623:duplicated those of the 1st:
501:and two guns of 99th Battery
2939:Maj-Gen R. P. Pakenham-Walsh
2016:Ford, pp. 39–44; Appendix 1.
1932:, pp. 317–8, 389–90, 409–10.
1676:Watson & Rinaldi, p. 31.
1641:Watson & Rinaldi, p. 61.
1625:Watson & Rinaldi, p. 65.
1600:Watson & Rinaldi, p. 34.
1527:Watson & Rinaldi, p. 11.
1292:, along with members of the
1047:
986:1st Polish Parachute Brigade
643:58th (2/1st London) Division
562:
450:27th Division served on the
7:
2882:Lt-Gen Sir Brian Horrocks,
2429:Pakenham-Walsh, pp. 489–96.
2402:Pakenham-Walsh, pp. 469–70.
2226:Pakenham-Walsh, pp. 409–10.
2124:Pakenham-Walsh, pp. 382–83.
2079:Pakenham-Walsh, pp. 380–82.
2025:Pakenham-Walsh, pp. 379–80.
1853:Essame, Appendix A, p. 273.
1388:Col. Robert Brindley Pitt,
816:
687:
512:to capture the villages of
473:
295:Wessex Divisional Engineers
169:1st Somersetshire Engineers
10:
3085:
3003:, Tiger Lily Books, 2018,
2912:, Solihull: Helion, 2003,
2384:Pakenham-Walsh, pp. 466–7.
2271:Pakenham-Walsh, pp. 407–8.
1901:Pakenham-Walsh, pp. 363–4.
1310:
1114:
639:45th (2nd Wessex) Division
630:2/2nd Wessex Field Company
627:2/1st Wessex Field Company
407:1/2nd Wessex Field Company
404:1/1st Wessex Field Company
375:) volunteered to serve in
319:Devon and Cornwall Brigade
210:
1718:Falls, Vol I, pp. 159–60.
1255:Allied invasion of Sicily
1178:45th Divisional Engineers
950:
595:First Republic of Armenia
399:27th Divisional Engineers
387:27th Divisional Engineers
107:
89:
81:
66:
48:
40:
31:
2977:, Stroud: Sutton, 2004,
2886:, London: Collins, 1960.
2871:, Stroud: Sutton, 1998,
2353:Essame, pp. 215–20, 270.
1757:Becke, Pt 2a, pp. 55–60.
1709:Falls, Vol I, pp. 158–9.
1700:Becke, Pt 1, pp. 97–103.
1412:
1377:Capt. H. B. O. Saville,
1125:51st (Highland) Division
1078:15th (Scottish) Division
969:Guards Armoured Division
783:13th Bridging Platoon –
534:Gloucestershire Regiment
499:King's Royal Rifle Corps
3037:The Drill Hall Project.
2890:Joslen, H. F. (2003) .
2474:Pakenham-Walsh, p. 511.
2151:Pakenham-Walsh, p. 383.
1998:Forty, Annex B, p. 317.
1794:Titles and Designations
1766:Becke, Pt 2b, pp. 9–15.
1588:Becke, Pt 2a, pp. 43–8.
1347:207 Field Park Squadron
1097:'Jumbo' scissors bridge
1001:73rd Anti-Tank Regiment
957:Operation Market Garden
678:Christchurch, Hampshire
215:The enthusiasm for the
2792:The Battle of Normandy
1784:Becke, Pt 2b, pp. 1–7.
1338:226 Field Squadron at
1277:
1246:
1187:
1132:6th Parachute Division
1099:, two more AVREs with
1093:79th Armoured Division
945:11th Armoured Division
935:
911:
892:
865:
776:joined 13 January 1940
774:553th Field Company –
758:
721:Royal Corps of Signals
460:Second Battle of Ypres
458:(14–15 March) and the
414:South Midland Division
373:43rd (Wessex) Division
177:43rd (Wessex) Division
2990:Sir Charles M. Watson
2842:Captain Cyril Falls,
2831:Captain Cyril Falls,
2811:The Defeat of Germany
2187:Horrocks, pp. 228–30.
1980:Essame, pp. 82, 85–6.
1433:Beckett, Appendix IX.
1329:110 Engineer Regiment
1296:, remnants of 1st Bn
1294:Glider Pilot Regiment
1267:
1244:
1225:1st Airborne Division
1185:
1003:and B Company 8th Bn
974:1st Airborne Division
933:
909:
889:
863:
785:joined 1 October 1943
756:
676:, 1/3rd joining from
569:Armistice of Salonica
503:Royal Field Artillery
420:17th Field Company –
325:South Western Brigade
189:1st Airborne Division
36:110 Engineer Regiment
2420:Essame, p. 233.
2335:Essame, pp. 197–200.
2299:Horrocks, pp. 233–6.
2244:Essame, pp. 136–138.
2214:Essame, pp. 132–135.
2173:Essame, pp. 117–132.
1217:left 8 December 1941
1105:Churchill Crocodiles
982:Dorsetshire Regiment
2824:Maj-Gen H. Essame,
2805:Major L. F. Ellis,
2411:Essame, pp. 229–30.
2326:Essame, pp. 167–80.
2133:Essame, pp. 108–11.
2052:Buckley, pp. 185–8.
1658:on 22 December 2015
1609:Becke, Pt 2b, p. 6.
1321:29th Army Troops RE
1283:RAF Tarrant Rushton
1160:Self-propelled guns
1066:Operation Veritable
1054:Operation Blackcock
1040:counter-attacks by
943:noon on 29 August.
798:and 204 Fd Co with
645:, becoming part of
621:2nd Wessex Division
555:the passage of the
529:Cameron Highlanders
3047:2015-10-23 at the
2753:Ian F.W. Beckett,
2561:Joslen, pp. 104–5.
2483:Essame, pp. 267–9.
2447:Essame, pp. 242–6.
2438:Essame, pp. 233–6.
2262:Essame, pp. 143–4.
2106:Essame, pp. 104–5.
2061:Essame, pp. 100–2.
1950:Essame, pp. 37–72.
1941:McKee, pp. 239–64.
1335:204 Field Squadron
1305:Operation Doomsday
1278:
1247:
1188:
1134:, but reached the
1005:Middlesex Regiment
936:
912:
893:
866:
855:armoured bulldozer
847:Operation Bluecoat
794:, 553 Fd Co with
759:
723:formed in 1920 as
647:58th Divisional RE
611:58th Divisional RE
545:501st (2nd Wessex)
541:500th (1st Wessex)
518:Wire entanglements
217:Volunteer movement
2933:978-1-78159-180-2
2901:978-1-84342-474-1
2863:978-1-84884-576-3
2784:Major L. F. Ellis
2778:978-0-300-13449-0
2733:978-1-108-01335-2
2373:Defeat of Germany
2344:Horrocks, p. 253.
2285:Defeat of Germany
2253:Ryan, pp. 516-32.
2235:Ryan, pp. 508-14.
2205:Ryan, pp. 478-80.
2142:Ford, pp. 164–77.
2115:Ford, pp. 93–132.
2007:Essame, pp. 91–5.
1844:Ford, Appendix 5.
1488:Watson, pp. 42–3.
1477:Monthly Army List
1363:Honorary Colonels
1121:Operation Plunder
1025:Operation Clipper
839:Operation Jupiter
662:See main article
609:See main article
456:Action at St Eloi
331:Hampshire Brigade
277:Territorial Force
271:Territorial Force
259:, with its HQ at
233:Weston-super-Mare
227:(EVC) formed at
162:
161:
98:Weston-super-Mare
85:Field Engineering
16:(Redirected from
3076:
3031:External sources
2954:A Bridge Too Far
2952:Cornelius Ryan,
2905:
2712:
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2703:
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2514:
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2502:
2499:
2493:
2490:
2484:
2481:
2475:
2472:
2466:
2465:Buckley, p. 292.
2463:
2457:
2454:
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2439:
2436:
2430:
2427:
2421:
2418:
2412:
2409:
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2391:
2385:
2382:
2376:
2369:
2363:
2362:Buckley, p. 277.
2360:
2354:
2351:
2345:
2342:
2336:
2333:
2327:
2324:
2318:
2315:
2309:
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2125:
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2116:
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2107:
2104:
2098:
2091:
2080:
2077:
2071:
2070:Ford, pp. 63–91.
2068:
2062:
2059:
2053:
2050:
2039:
2032:
2026:
2023:
2017:
2014:
2008:
2005:
1999:
1996:
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1987:
1981:
1978:
1972:
1969:
1960:
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1951:
1948:
1942:
1939:
1933:
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1920:
1919:Essame, pp. 35–6
1917:
1911:
1908:
1902:
1899:
1893:
1892:Essame, pp. 3–9.
1890:
1884:
1881:
1875:
1872:
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1854:
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1654:. Archived from
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1626:
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1489:
1486:
1480:
1474:
1459:
1456:
1450:
1449:Westlake, p. 13.
1447:
1434:
1431:
1425:
1422:
1164:Oste-Hamme Canal
1029:US 84th Division
694:Territorial Army
524:, by 4 October.
468:Macedonian front
426:on 24 March 1915
412:joined from the
205:Territorial Army
76:Territorial Army
74:
59:
57:
56:
29:
28:
21:
3084:
3083:
3079:
3078:
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3075:
3074:
3073:
3059:
3058:
3054:Pegasus Archive
3049:Wayback Machine
3042:Great War Forum
3033:
3014:R.A. Westlake,
3009:978-171790180-4
2902:
2738:Maj A.F. Becke,
2720:
2715:
2710:
2706:
2701:
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2460:
2456:Essame, p. 255.
2455:
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2437:
2433:
2428:
2424:
2419:
2415:
2410:
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2393:Essame, p. 221.
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2383:
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2370:
2366:
2361:
2357:
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2348:
2343:
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2334:
2330:
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2321:
2317:Essame, p. 167.
2316:
2312:
2308:Essame, p. 166.
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