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25-04-12, 06:32 PM
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Royal Engineers Units in 1st WW.and 2nd WW
Good day gentlemen, I thought of posting this information in the hope it may be useful to some members of the forum.
Courtesy of orbat.com.Perhaps some of you may already know this. Jo 1st. WW. http://orbat.com/site/uk_orbats/file...%20War%20I.pdf 2nd WW http://orbat.com/site/uk_orbats/file...20War%20II.pdf
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25-04-12, 08:03 PM
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Outstanding! Many thanks for posting them.
Mike
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25-04-12, 08:34 PM
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Thanks for taking time out to post these interesting papers. RE Forestry Companies! Where have I been not to be aware of these? Fascinating stuff about the largest Corps of the British Army (as far as I am aware).
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25-04-12, 09:57 PM
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RE's
No wonder there are so many RE cap badges about . . !
Great stuff Jo, many thanks for posting this very informative history. Rob
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26-04-12, 02:54 PM
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Thank you very much Mike, Oriskany and Rob for your comments, it's really appreciated.
Cheers Jo
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"There truly exists but one perfect order: that of cemeteries. The dead never complain and they enjoy their equality in silence." - “There are things we know that we know,” “There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know we don't know.” Donald Rumsfeld, before the Iraqi Invasion,2003. Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.
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26-04-12, 03:17 PM
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This is going to take some time to read. Thanks for posting it.
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 JERRY ROYAL ENGINEERS/BRITISH ARMY CORPS & SERVICES/BRITISH LEGION/ROYAL BRITISH LEGION (see albums)
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26-04-12, 04:08 PM
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later as 179th Field Coy RE. Assigned 47th Infantry Division 8 Feb 1943; relieved 22 Sep 1943. Presumably disbanded later. No! 179 Special Field Company RE (and 185 Special Field Company RE - missing in OOB) were both elements of 21st Army Group's R Force (the Secret unit concerned with tactical deception) The two RE Special Fd Coys were concerned with dummy tanks etc and dummy lighting displays in support of other deception operations such as broadcasting the sound of tanks moving, bridges being constructed etc). The detail of R Force was Secret until 1992 - hence the lack of mention of the Special Field Companies RE and Special Field Park Companies RE in the Order of Battle posted.
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