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25-08-21, 01:07 PM
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EARLY RE DIVERS TRADE BADGE
I am trying to establish which arm badge early RE divers would have worn when trained before the yellow helmet and all the variations were used.
I have been led to believe that it was the RN divers badge of a RED Divers Helmet on a tombstone(see attached) Can any of our navel members confirm what was worn please? Jerry
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27-08-21, 10:48 AM
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Jerry,
I think I may have posted this before - a photo of a Sapper Corporal taken in Germany in 1945 showing him wearing the RN diver's badge as you suggest, Jon
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27-08-21, 05:44 PM
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Thanks Jon, I think you did but I could not find it anywhere. Just need to find one now so hopefully at Military Odyssey tomorrow (Saturday) I may find one.
Jerry
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27-08-21, 05:59 PM
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Jerry,
See you tomorrow, I will have the SMG badge for you. Tim
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27-08-21, 07:00 PM
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Quote:
Jerry
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07-09-21, 10:21 AM
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RE BD trained divers WW2
Members of RE BD units were trained as divers by the Royal Navy during WW2.
Andy Sapper Harry Clark 226 BD Section 25 BD Coy RE https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peo...a2836253.shtml July 1944 Identified along with a Sapper Powell who was also injured, as members of the units diving crew. Training for the diving crews was conducted at Chatham under Royal Navy tuition and would consist of wearing and use of Siebe-Gorman pressure diving suits for deep water work and American light diving suits for river and beach work. The task was to locate and remove underwater mines and demolition depth charges. Consistent diving for mine and ice packed waters would often result with hands and limbs being effected from ill effects. At Chatham, basic training was conducted in a large water tank, where trainee divers were given the job of cutting through a steel hawser, with a hacksaw and a plank of wood. It was always a strange experience to see the sawdust rising to the surface when cutting. In winter, the Royal Navy personnel broke the ice on the tank, put in a steam hose and a thermometer - when it read 38f, they were in.
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