The East Lancashire Royal Engineers was a Volunteer unit of Britain's Royal Engineers raised in Manchester in 1901. It became the engineer component of...
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201st (East Lancashire) Field Company, Royal Engineers 202nd (East Lancashire) Field Company, Royal Engineers (until 11 April 1940) 250th (East Anglian)...
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East Lancashire Royal Engineers, a British Army unit raised in 1901 42nd (East Lancashire) Infantry Division, formerly called the East Lancashire Division...
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42 (East Lancashire) Signal Regiment was a Territorial Army unit of the British Army's Royal Corps of Signals. It had its origins in a Volunteer unit of...
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The Lancashire (Fortress) Royal Engineers was a volunteer unit of Britain's Royal Engineers formed in 1884 to defend the Mersey Estuary. As well as serving...
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The 1st Lancashire Engineer Volunteer Corps was a Volunteer unit of Britain's Royal Engineers, first raised in 1860. It went on to spin off a unit of...
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Regiment Royal Armoured Corps. In 1936, the 7th Battalion was converted into 39th (The Lancashire Fusiliers) Anti-Aircraft Battalion, Royal Engineers, based...
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The East Lancashire Railway is a twelve-and-a-half-mile (20 km) heritage railway line in North West England which runs between Heywood, Greater Manchester...
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unit of the British Army raised in Liverpool in 1859. As the Lancashire & Cheshire Royal Garrison Artillery in the Territorial Force it was responsible...
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battalions of the Royal Engineers (RE). The 7th Lancashire Fusiliers was one unit selected for this role, becoming 39th (The Lancashire Fusiliers) AA Battalion...
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The East Lancashire Railway operated from 1844 to 1859 in the historic county of Lancashire, England. It began as a railway from Clifton via Bury to Rawtenstall...
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Army Field Company, Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers 101st (Monmouthshire) Army Field Company, Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers 216th (1st London)...
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Lancaster's Own Yeomanry, later becoming Honorary Colonel of the East Lancashire Royal Engineers, a Volunteer unit (later part of the Territorial Force). During...
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2025 New Year Honours (section Royal Victorian Order)
and Mechanical Engineers, 25036853. Major Joshua William Knight Wray, Corps of Royal Engineers, 30089160. Corporal Olivia Brindley, Royal Air Force, 30228630...
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brigade of the Royal Field Artillery in the Territorial Force in 1908, and served through the First World War with the 42nd (East Lancashire) Division at...
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Gordon Guggisberg (category Royal Engineers officers)
(2nd East Lancashire) Divisional Engineers from November 1916 to May 1917. He was brigadier-general commanding the 170th (2/1st North Lancashire) Brigade...
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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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(East Lancashire) Field Battery 210 (East Lancashire) Field Battery 111th Field Regiment RHQ at Bolton 211 (East Lancashire) Field Battery 212 (East Lancashire)...
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Manchester Artillery (redirect from 2nd East Lancashire Brigade (The Manchester Artillery), Royal Field Artillery)
2nd) East Lancashire Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (TF), consisting of the 15th, 16th and 17th Lancashire Batteries and the II East Lancashire Brigade...
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Company, Royal Engineers (TA), Tunstall 252nd (West Lancashire) Field Company, Royal Engineers (TA), Walsall 253rd (West Lancashire) Field Company, Royal Engineers...
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The Bristol Engineer Volunteer Corps was a part-time unit of Britain's Royal Engineers, first raised in 1861. It went on to provide the Sappers for the...
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Raid on the Suez Canal (category History of the Royal Air Force during World War I)
and two Maxim guns), two sections of the 1st Field Company East Lancashire Royal Engineers and the 137th Indian Field Ambulance were in position between...
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Manchester, joined from 66th Divisional Engineers (the 2nd Line of 42nd (East Lancashire) Divisional Engineers) on 23 June 1940 after the disbandment of...
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The 71st (East Lancashire) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery was an air defence unit of Britain's Territorial Army (TA), which was raised just before...
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The 1st Sussex Engineers was a Volunteer unit of Britain's Royal Engineers raised in Eastbourne in 1890. It became the engineer component of the 44th (Home...
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1919 Birthday Honours (MC) (section East Africa)
DCM East Lancashire Regiment 2nd Lt. Dingwall Latham Bateson, King's Royal Rifle Corps, attd. Gloucestershire Regiment Lt. John James Bayley, Royal Garrison...
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Bolton Artillery (redirect from 3rd East Lancashire Brigade (The Bolton Artillery), Royal Field Artillery)
(or 3rd) East Lancashire Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, consisting of the 18th, 19th and 20th Lancashire Batteries and the III East Lancashire Brigade...
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Royal Field Arty. (Bayswater W.) Pte. R. Affleck, Scots Guards (Johnstone) L. Cpl. W. Agnew DCM Royal Engineers (Belfast) Pte. R. Ainscow, Lancashire...
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Liverpool Rifles (redirect from 38th (The King's Regiment) Anti-Aircraft Battalion, Royal Engineers)
was a unit of the Territorial Army, part of the British Army, formed in Lancashire as a 'Rifle Volunteer Corps' (RVC) in 1859, becoming a battalion of the...
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179th Tunnelling Company (category Tunnelling companies of the Royal Engineers)
pp. 40–1, 135–8, 186. Sources Anonymous, A History of the East Lancashire Royal Engineers by Members of the Corps, Manchester, 1920/Uckfield: Naval &...
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