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A museum has launched a JustGiving campaign to purchase engineering records from the Second World War. The Royal Engineers Museum in Gillingham has to raise £10,000 by March 10 before the ...
A descendant of William the Conqueror from Swindon has recently released a book that tributes to the soldiers that died on VE ...
Message 1 - Royal Engineers 1940 Posted on: 03 December 2004 by sgt_george. I am researching the military career of a great uncle of mine Sgt. George Fitzpatrick (1866342) of 1 Supply Base Depot ...
8th Feb 1941 The new unit of the 85th Chemical Warfare company, Royal Engineers was established at “A” camp, Barton Stacey, Hampshire and Arthur joined as Pioneer 2nd Class along with the ...
The Royal Engineers Museum in Chatham is opening two new galleries celebrating centuries of military history and engineering development. As well as the map, ...
Artworks by the celebrated local artist Percy Kelly (1918-1993) continue to grow in value. A watercolour “Village Backs” sold for £3,000, a watercolour of a lane, cottages and mountains sold ...
They gathered at the Royal Engineers Museum for the 80th anniversary of the German surrender to the allies during World War 2. Finn Macdiarmid reports. Germany to declare national emergency on ...
Picture: Royal Engineers Museum "In 10 months, the Mulberry harbour was used to land over 2.5 million troops, 500,000 vehicles and 4 million tons of supplies.
Arthur Middleton and the 85th Field Company of Royal Engineers embarked from Southampton on 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, of June 1944 in an LCI (Landing Craft Infantry), as part of assault force J.