The Kent Fortress Royal Engineers (KFRE) was a volunteer Territorial unit of the British Army that saw service in both World Wars. They are notable for...
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joined companies from the Kent Fortress Royal Engineers to form Kent Corps Troops Royal Engineers (CTRE), later III (Kent) CTRE. The new unit moved to...
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the Royal Engineers, later in the Royal Artillery. It served during the Battle of Britain and The Blitz. The unit was formed as 73rd (Kent Fortress) AA...
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Sussex Fortress Companies'. These became the Sussex Fortress Royal Engineers based at Seaford, East Sussex, the Kent Fortress Royal Engineers based at...
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The Sussex Fortress Royal Engineers was a Territorial Force (TF) unit of Britain's Royal Engineers from 1908 to 1920. As well as coastal defence duties...
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United Kingdom and around the world. The Royal Engineers trace their origins back to the military engineers brought to England by William the Conqueror...
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formed in Kent during the reorganisation of the TF and into 1939: Kent Public Secondary Schools Cadet Battalion Kent Fortress Royal Engineers 1st Cadet...
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The Carmarthenshire Fortress Royal Engineers (CFRE) was a coast defence unit of Britain's Territorial Army formed after World War I. In World War II, it...
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The Essex (Fortress) Royal Engineers was a volunteer unit of Britain's Royal Engineers formed to defend the Essex coast. It served in this role in World...
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1951. Kent Fortress Royal Engineers Sussex Fortress Royal Engineers 208th (Sussex) Field Company, Royal Engineers 264th (Sussex) Field Company, Royal Engineers...
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forces along the Somme. At the same time, a small TA unit, the Kent Fortress Royal Engineers, carried out the first major commando-style operations of the...
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David Jennings (cricketer) (category Royal Engineers soldiers)
Championship in 1909, 1910 and 1913. Jennings served in the Kent Fortress Royal Engineers in the First World War and died as a result of injuries received...
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(permission to retain rank withdrawn, 1933) previously Lieutenant, Kent Fortress Royal Engineers, (deprived of rank of lieutenant, 1933) "broadcast on the English...
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Battalion, Royal Engineers, Brentwood 29th (Kent) Anti-Aircraft Battalion, Royal Engineers, Chatham 73rd (Kent Fortress) Anti-Aircraft Battalion, Royal Engineers...
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Colin Blythe (category Kent cricketers)
in Kent's final match of the season at Bournemouth; war had intervened. Despite his epilepsy, Blythe enlisted in the Kent Fortress Royal Engineers (KFRE)...
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David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons (category Deputy lieutenants of Kent)
recovered. Sir David Salomons was appointed Honorary Colonel of the Kent Fortress Royal Engineers, a part-time Territorial Force unit, on 6 November 1908. His...
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May 1943, the engineers attached to the Fremantle Fortress, until then part of the Royal Australian Engineers, were transferred to the Royal Australian Artillery...
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Fortress Company, Royal Engineers 31st Fortress Company, Royal Engineers 42nd Fortress Company, Royal Engineers 1st Printing Company, Royal Engineers...
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Leonard Shuter (cricketer, born 1887) (category Royal Engineers officers)
Corps, Shuter was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Kent Fortress Royal Engineers, serving with the unit in the First World War. During the war...
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East Lancashire Royal Engineers was a Volunteer unit of Britain's Royal Engineers raised in Manchester in 1901. It became the engineer component of the...
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Loos. Despite his epilepsy, Sergeant Colin Blythe joined the Kent Fortress Royal Engineers at the outbreak of war in 1914. He served on the home front...
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Percy Shepherd (category Royal Engineers officers)
company Kent Fortress Royal Engineers as a 2nd Lieutenant. After training, he transferred to the Inland Waterways and Docks company of the Royal Engineers and...
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1992, pp. 5–6 Militia, Volunteers and Territorials (Royal Engineers Museum) Royal Engineers Fortress Companies (1914-18.net) Norman E.H. Litchfield, The...
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originally recruited from the South Kensington Museum. It provided Royal Engineers (RE) units to the 47th (1/2nd London) Division, the 47th (London) Infantry...
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Yeomanry (section Royal Engineers)
(Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry) Squadron (Croydon) D (Shropshire Yeomanry) Squadron E (Leicestershire and Derbyshire Yeomanry) Squadron The Royal Yeomanry...
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and Somerset Engineers were split to form the Devonshire Fortress Royal Engineers at Plymouth and the Somerset-based divisional engineers for the Wessex...
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20th Battalion, London Regiment (Blackheath and Woolwich) (redirect from 34th (Queen's Own Royal West Kent) Searchlight Battalion, Royal Engineers)
as 34th (The Queen's Own Royal West Kent) Anti-Aircraft Battalion (later amended to '34th (Queen's Own)')of the Royal Engineers (RE) with four AA Companies...
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Lovick Friend (category Royal Engineers officers)
the Royal Engineers and was Commander-in-Chief, Ireland, during the 1916 Easter Rising. As a sportsman, Friend played in goal for the Royal Engineers in...
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Fort Amherst (category Scheduled monuments in Kent)
britishmuseum.org. 1793. Retrieved 18 February 2014. Fortress Kent. p. 42. A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland. p. 173. "Chatham"...
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Frank Woolley (category Military personnel from Kent)
to manufacture munitions. His three brothers all joined the Kent Fortress Royal Engineers in 1914, and in 1915 Woolley attempted to join them but failed...
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