Kenya

34 Squadron

This is the main page for the squadron or unit. More info will be added here as I get the time, but for now it's a "base" for establishing comms with other members of the same unit. You can post messages for other members of the same unit using the messages link above this blurb, and you can also search for other members of this unit. Once you find them, click on their name to send an email direct to them. Please note that this website doesn't "remember" your emails, they are sent direct from you to the recipient without sappers.co.uk getting in the way. That helps you get in touch quickly and it keeps everything simple and free. Have fun. Gordon

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Tidworth

873 Plant Sqn

I only heard about this unit from Bob Wakelam today (May 2012) when he sent me an email as below. If you can give me any more information about it, please get in touch -

Hello Gordon. Re work history I am unable to find any reference to the units that In served in during my national service maybe I am too old,I did my corps training at Lockerbie was then sent to a transit camp at Barton Stacy from there shipped to a transit camp at Suez via Pott Said from there posted to 337 army troops squadroni in Palestine after a week the whole of the squadron moved back to the transit camp at Suez to be shipped down to Mombassa in Kenya where I joined 873 Plant Squadron did an Excavator Operator course was posted to 56 Plant Troop at Mackinnon Road where I spent the rest of my service and was demobed in February1949 any help would be appreciated .Regards R.E.Wakelam

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Kenya

89 Sqn

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Chepstow

Kenya

British Army Training Liason Staff Kenya

This is a holding page for this unit until someone sends me some more info to put up here. Meanwhile you can use it to complete your work history and other people can use it to help you find it.

REgards, Gordon

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Kenya

Loan Service

Loan service posts for QMSI's were generally: Kenya, Oman, Kuwait & Sierra Leone. Im sure there are loads more, particularly for officers, but those are the mainstream ones for NCOs.

There was also a NATO loan service post in Italy for those rarified few who were lucky enough to wangle their way into it.

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World War 2

Recently we've had some new members who served King and Country during World War 2. The Royal Engineers were formed in a very different way before the 1960s and this site would become impossibly difficult to navigate if I tried to re-create all those individual units. In particular, this site is designed to help those sappers with common interests and experiences to connect, by being easily able to find each other. Therefore as a catch-all I've created this posting as a place where those most-respected sappers can link to each other. From here you can use the forum which I will create on 14th May or use the Message button to give me some more details about your own service. I will then copy those details onto this front page so everyone can see them easily. With much REspect and REgards,

Gordon

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