Search Results for Royal Engineers
Articles 30th March 2018
Two officers killed accidentally by sentry
Several newspapers included details of a tragic story from an inquest held at a Police Court on Monday 25 January 1915. This example is from the "Manchester Evening News": Harris was charged with causing the death…
Reviews 14th May 2018
Review of "Faces from the Front"
Faces from the Front Harold Gillies, the Queen's Hospital, Sidcup, and the origins of modern plastic surgery by Andrew Bamji published by Helion & Company, October 2017 Hardback ISBN 978 1 911512 66 0 202…
Starters reading list: the Western Front battles of 1915
Neuve Chapelle, March 1915 The Battle of Neuve Chapelle by Paul Kendall. A modern study of the battle and one of the very few that cover it in detail. A good starter read. It is…
Reviews 17th April 2019
Review of "The invisible cross"
Review of "The invisible cross" by Andrew Davidson published by Quercus Editions in 2016 my paper back copy published in 2017 ISBN 978 0 85705 427 2 369 pages plus foreword, afterword, end notes. A…
Norfolk Regiment
Regimental Depot Britannia Barracks, Norwich Battalions of the Regular Army 1st Battalion August 1914 : in Holywood, Belfast. Part of 15th Brigade, 5th Division. Landed at Le Havre August 1914. Moved with Division to Italy…
Casualty lists
What are these records? The casualty returns from units in the field were compiled into lists that were produced by the War Office and reproduced in many newspapers. They include the names of men killed,…
Entrenching Battalions before 1918
Please beware that this page is a work in progress. The information contained is accurate but incomplete. I shall add other battalions and details as I discover snippets of information. General On 9 August 1915…
Gazetteer of the Western Front: Le Touquet
This page is about the hamlet of Le Touquet, which is in Belgium – if only just, for it is very close to the border with France. It is not the same as the much…
Herefordshire Regiment
Depot and Company locations The regiment was unusual in that it was a represented by a single unit of the Territorial Force. It had no regular army component other than the small permanent cadre of…