The Wartime Memories Project - The Royal Engineers

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Information. The history of the Royal Engineers can be traced back over 900 years. Thier motto 'ubique' was awarded by King William IV in 1832, to signify that The Royal Engineers had taken part in every battle fought by the British Army. Their skills are also in great demand during peacetime. The Royal Engineers saw combat through out the Second World War, thier skills being put to extensive use in the fields of bomb disposal, mine detection, bridge building etc. Sapper Cornelius C Holden of the Royal Engineers , unit 1014 docks operating coy. was my grandfather he was killed in Italy on 06/08/1944. As far as I know he was coming home. When a sniper started firing on the soldiers waiting on the dock for the ships to go home. If there is anyone with info, or any leads to info please contact me. My father was Sapper Lawrence Burchett and he came from Greenwich, London. All I know is that he had something to do with disarming land mines probably in the regions of Germany. I would be delighted if anyone can help with more information. My father Tom Reed died in Tobruk 1941-1942. He was with the Royal Engineers. I regret I have no photos or other matter to add to the website for Thomas Frederick Reed, but would like to find his date and place of birth. Perhaps there are records. Perhaps I might visit the gravesite in Tobruk in the future. Doreen de Bruyne Cpl Leslie Lewis Webb 14th Field Squadron Royal Engineers. (Attatched to the Guards Armoured Division). My uncle Leslie Webb was killed while disarming a German mine on the 24th August 1944 south of caen in an orchard. I have a photo (very poor copy) of a bridge with a large sign on it say 'in memory of Cpl Leslie Webb, erected by members of his squadron'. My family have tried to locate where the bridge was built without success, I would obviously lke to try and locate it but I would also like to know wheather the naming of a bridge was common practice and if so how were names chosen. Is it likely that they used the same bridge but changed the name plate or did the name plate remain for as long as the bridge remained. Any comments or help would be appreaciated. I was one of a handful of survivors of a ferry which sank in the Bay of Bengal in April 1945. We were rescued by a large ship and taken to Calcutta, where we were separated into our units and split up. When I returned to the R.E.M.E. HQ after having my kit and pay replaced, they told me that a Sergeant from the Engineers, who was also a survivor, had been looking for "a Geordie" who had helped him, but I never saw him. I would very much like to find this Sergeant after all this time. Ernest Wilson R.E.M.E. Read about the sinking of the Ferry Please can you give me any information about my late father who was a POW after being captured at Dunkirk. His name was Joseph Curtis, he was born in 1917 and prior to enlistment he was an Electrican. He enlisted at Marlborough on 2-2-39, He was with the BEF in France 23/4/40 - 9/6/40 with The Royal Engineers, he previously served in Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry. He was captured on the 10th June 1940 and held as a POW in Germany until liberated on the 12 July 1945. Melton Curtis Can you please help establish what actually happended in relation to my father the late Sergeant William Pretswell, Date of Death 07/11/44. He was aged 26 and was with the Royal Engineers. David Pretswell Photographs If you have any Photographs you would like to share please get in touch. List of those who served. Sapper Henry John Adams 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper William George Adams 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Harold Alcock 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Colin Henry James Aldom 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Arthur Vernon Aldred 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Harold Frederick Aplin 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Albert Sydney Baker 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Kenneth Lawrence Barnard 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper William Frederick Barron, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Frederick William Barton, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper John Hardy Bean, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Lt Bence Read his story Sapper Charles Edward Bird, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Lawrence William Bird, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Robert Blakely, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Major John Boxer Sapper Lorraine Ernest Walter Brind, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Herbert Brown, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Lawrence Burchett. Read his Story Spr Burns Read his story Sapper Horace Frederick Cannel, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Charles Chalmers, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper James Richard Colquitt, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Spr Conley Read his story Sapper Frederick Copsey, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Arthur Cour, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Percy Cowin, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Joseph Curtis. Read his story Spr Danson Read his story Sapper Stanley Dracass. Read his story Douglas Drake Sapper Joseph Duffy, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Cyril Duquemin, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper William Henry Evans, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Francis Robert Farline 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Albert William Filmer, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Stanley Lashwood Fitch, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Spr. Granville Raymond Lewis. 159 Railway Construction Corp. Royal Engineers Read his Story Sapper George Flemming 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper T W Gardiner (d.21 June 1940) Sapper Leonard Gibbs 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) James Goodfellow Sapper Francis Gerard Goudy, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) L/Sgt George Henry Gray, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) L/Cpl Albert Greenhill, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Montague Raymond Griffin, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper William Alfred Haigh, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Thomas George Hamper, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Stanley Harrison. cook. Read his story Sapper Albert Hart, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) L/Cpl Silvester Benjamin Hart, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Spr Haslett Read his story Sapper George Edward Hay, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) 2nd Lt William Edward Hayward, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper John Charles Hennah, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Charles Heron, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Norman Harry Hiscock 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Walter Hirst. 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers. Read his story Sapper Cornelius C Holden. 1014 docks operating coy. Read his Story Sapper Albert Holliday, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper John Hood, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper John Eden Horton 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Thomas Howard, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper R Hogg (d. 21 June 1940) Sapper Henry Hunt, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Arthur Ingham, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Frederick Ernest Inkpen, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Henry Arthur Ireton, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Dvr Robert Johnson, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Albert James Jugg (d. 10 September 1945) Sapper George Richard Kingsman, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Spr C H Larkin Read his story Spr C W Larkin Read his story Sapper Sydney Lea, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Horace Lewis, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Spr Lockhart Read his story W S Lowbridge. Read his story Sapper Archibald Burgess McIntyre, Archibald Burgess 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Thomas Maguire, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Spr. Arthur Marriott. Read his Story Sapper Harold Samuel Mayer, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Spr Maxted Read his story Sapper Douglas Herbert Michell, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper James Strachan Murray, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Charles "Chick" Napier. 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers A/Capt Neilson Read his story Sapper Thomas Orme, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Frank Orton, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Ralph Frederick Pond, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Albert Marshall Ramsay, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Spr Ramsey Read his story Sapper Frederick Charles Rastall, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Thomas Frederick Reed (d. 12 Dec 1941) Read his story Cpl Charles Reeve, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Major E.G. "Dick" Richards. 233 Field Company RE 69 Infantry Brigade, 50 (N) Div. Read his story Sapper Geoffrey Richardson, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Reginald Clifford Rowe, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sgt William Pretswell. (d. 7th Nov. 1944) Read his story Alfred U Proctor. Sapper J Scuffield (d. 20 Mar 1943) Sapper William John Shannon, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Victor Shaw, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper A Shearman (d. 12 Feb 1944) Spr Shorey Read his story Sapper Ronald Arthur Silver, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper George Albert Silvey, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Hector Thomas Smith, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper J Smith (d. 17 6 1940) Robert Fergus "Fergie" Smith. Read his story Sapper G W Souter Sapper Albert Henry Staniland, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper James Sugrue, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Julian Thomas, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Harold Thorpe, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Harold Towell, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) 2nd Lt Frank Eardley Turner, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper George Frederick Turner, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sgt Walter Unsworth, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Capt. Richard Hearn Walker Cpl Watson Read his story Cpl Leslie Lewis Webb. 14th Field Squadron. Att. Guards Armoured Division (d. 24th Aug 1944)Read his story Spr Wheeler Read his story Sapper Eric Cecil Wilkin, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Joseph Richard Wood, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Spr Yates Read his story If you have any names to add to this list, or any recollections or photos of those listed, please get in touch. If you have a story which you would like to share, or a website dedicated to an airfield or aircrew, please get in touch. Send an E-mail to The Wartime Memories Project Links Allied Forces Index The Wartime Memories Project is a non profit organisation. This website is run out of our own pockets and from donations made by visitors. The popularity of the site means that it is far exceeding available resources. If you are enjoying the site, please consider making a donation, however small to help with the costs of keeping the site running. Or by cheque to: PO Box 325, Stockton on Tees, TS20 1XL. 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