Perham Down
22 Engr Regt Workshops REME
This is a holding page for the unit, as I don't know anything about the size of the unit, where it was stationed, whether it had other names etc. If you can let me have any information I'll gladly put it up here. REgards, Gordon
22 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
The link to the main EOD website is http://www.royalengineersbombdisposal-eod.org.uk/rea_bd_branch.html
26 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
3 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
This website has been up and running for a while, run by Pete Markham.
http://3fieldsquadronre.multiply.com/
Derek Sandilands maintains this blog and 3 Sqn related site too - http://delboy282.multiply.com/
32 Engr Regt
Dear Gordon,
I was National Service 1952 to 1954. Started at 9 Trg Regt RE at Farnborough, changed to 3 Trg Regt RE at Cove, Farnborough. Then posted to Perham Down near Tidworth.
My service was spent at 32 Asslt Engr Regt RE at Perham Down in 1952 or 1953. Perham Down is listed on the web site but not my regiment which was 32 Asslt Engr Regt., so I can’t put it in my details properly. Maybe you don’t go back that far, and I doubt if there are any more sappers of my era involved with this web site anyway, but it would be good to know. When I last looked for any details (I’ve been using the internet since it started) there was no web site mentioning where I served at all. This was at the time of the Korean war and some of my friends were posted and I lost touch with them.
After National Service we had to do three years reserve which included a fortnight’s camp every summer at Marchwood near Southampton, but I only did one year because I joined a reserved occupation in civvy street and was discharged from the army and had to send all my kit back. This was at the time of the Suez Crisis and I had at that time already been called up to go out there from Marchwood before my service was terminated.
I have of course Googled Perham Down and it has all gone – now civilian housing estate, etc. What a shame after all those memories! There were two parts to Perham Down but our regiment used the whole thing and we had tanks and heavy vehicles too. Also a separate firing range, extensive married quarters and two large officers quarters, one of them for the Royal Artillery whose other ranks were at a different site.
You are probably not interested, but I’m attaching photos showing me in my office job and also as guard commander.
My First Name is Leonard but I never use it; I entered it correctly in case you want to check the name against official records. I put my second name, Paul, as nickname because that is the name that everyone always uses.
Best wishes,
Paul Myerson (Corporal, RE, Retired)
5 Squadron
From Hank Lawrence
http://5fieldsquadronre.blogspot.com/
The 5th Field Company was formed by Royal Warrant at Plymouth in 1787.
The Company saw action in Spain, France and the Netherlands
during the Napoleonic Wars, and spent several years
in Canada and Bermuda during the 19th Century.
During the Zulu War of 1879,
Lt John Chard VC of 5 Field Company commanded
the successful defence of Rorke’s Drift.
The Company served in the Boer War, and suffered heavy casualties
on the Western Front during the First World War.
During the Second World War, the company served in France in 1939 – 40,
and in Burma from 1942 – 44.
After the War, the Company moved to Germany and
renamed 5 Field Squadron in 1948,
moving to Iserlohn for the first time in 1958.
The Squadron completed 4 tours in Northern Ireland from 1971 – 78,
and spent 12 years affiliated to 6 Airmobile (later Armoured) Brigade.
5 Field Squadron moved to join
22 Engineer Regiment at Tidworth in 1993
52 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
Rob Savage has started a Facebook group for you all too - https://www.facebook.com/52FieldSquadronConstRe
From the time I joined 52 in 1986 it was located with 22Engr Regt then in 1989 we permenantly relocated to RAF Bruggen in West Germany. - Shane Lee
6 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
8 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
81 Sqn
This is just a holding page for 81 Sqn, which should include 81 HQ Sqn RE, I know nothing about it so feel free to tell me stuff and I'll post it here. Meanwhile you can use this page to look for other members of the unit or to post messages for each other by clicking the links above
HQ 22 Engr Regt
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.
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