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As well as operating searchlights for the coastal defence guns, the RE fortress companies began to operate them in the anti-aircraft (AA) role as the war progressed and raids by airships and fixed wing bombers became more frequent. The North East coastal towns of
England were particularly hard hit by
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with US and
Italian engineers, under an Electric Power Committee set up in December 1943. Once the Allies reached Rome in mid-1944 they discovered that less than 10 per cent of the 800,000 kW generating capacity of central Italy was in working order. Over the succeeding months 542nd E&M
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and comprised 60 men, many of them highly skilled craftsmen attracted by the considerably higher pay during training periods than was offered to other
Volunteer units. The first officers' commissions were issued on 11 September 1886 and the corps ranked 4th in the list of submarine miners.
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the
Germans had destroyed everything to do with electricity supply: power stations, sub-stations, hydro-electric dam sluices, transmission lines and pylons were all wrecked. Repair was a collaborative effort of the British Royal Engineers and
588:. By May 1918 this formed part of Northern Air Defences (NAD). At this stage of the war the NAD was barely troubled by German raids, and most of the men of medical category A1 had been withdrawn from the AA defences and sent to join the
637:(formed in 1942) maintained vehicles and complex weapons and equipment, the RE's E&M companies worked with heavy electrical engineering plant, such as generators and pumps. In December 1942 the company landed in North Africa with
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713:) Engineer Regiment. In 1977 the squadron was transferred again, this time to 73 Engineer Regiment. Finally, it was broken up in April 1991, with part going to the Humber Artillery Company of 2nd Battalion
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260:. The Humber Submarine Miners were disbanded the following year and reconstituted as a militia unit, but many of the Volunteers resigned rather than transfer to more onerous terms of service.
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in 1908, the remaining submarine miners were converted into fortress engineers, but in the case of the Humber defences a completely new unit had to be raised. It was entitled the
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129 Field Sqn was reformed in April 2006, but disbanded again in 2014 under the 'Army 2020' proposals, when 73 Engineer Rgt was reduced to a single squadron.
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Fortress Engineers were mobilised in the Humber Coast defences on 3 September 1939. Some time after December 1941 the unit was converted into
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Engineer Regiment. Then when the TA was converted into the
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Engineers for this task. After successful trials the system was rolled out to ports around the country. In 1886 a meeting held at the instigation of
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the re-establishment of electric power supplies was critical. Power stations in the south of the country were quickly captured intact, but north of
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1161:, London: HM Stationery Office, 1934/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2007,
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London: HM Stationery Office, 1937/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2007,
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Maj O.M. Short, Maj H. Sherlock, Capt L.E.C.M. Perowne and Lt M.A. Fraser,
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The History of the Tyne Electrical Engineers, Royal Engineers, 1884β1933
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Titles and Designations of Formations and Units of the Territorial Army
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Zeppelins during 1915 and 1916, and by mid-1916, the East Riding and
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Militia, Yeomanry and Volunteer Forces of the East Riding 1689β1908
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Riflemen Form: A study of the Rifle Volunteer Movement 1859β1908
612:(TA) in 1920, forming part of North Eastern Coastal Defences in
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The Corps of Royal Engineers: Organization and Units 1889β2018
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216:(RE) to man these additional defences, so he utilised the
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The company was accommodated in Hull adjacent to the
244:' Wenlock Barracks, and High Paull House, close to
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Military units and formations in Kingston upon Hull
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300:Although the East Coast was attacked by the German
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1365:Military units and formations established in 1908
1075:North Riding Fortress Engineers at Regiments.org.
1232:, Chatham: Institution of Royal Engineers, 1958.
682:The company was disbanded after September 1945.
596:All TF units were demobilised in 1919 after the
1204:The German Air Raids on Great Britain 1914β1918
340:. They were just in time to participate in the
268:When the Volunteers were subsumed into the new
1206:, first published 1925/Stroud: Nonsuch, 2007,
880:"Discussion of RE TF units at Great War Forum"
547:, 3rd Division entered Germany as part of the
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635:Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
1064:118β432 RE Rgts at British Army 1945 on.
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692:542 (East Riding) Construction Squadron
34:542 (East Riding) Construction Squadron
1273:Royal Engineers (Volunteers) 1859β1908
1253:, London: War Office, 7 November 1927.
278:East Riding (Fortress) Royal Engineers
178:East Riding (Fortress) Royal Engineers
28:
1350:Fortress units of the Royal Engineers
719:131 Commando Squadron Royal Engineers
409:529th (East Riding) Field Company, RE
310:Bombardment of Yarmouth and Lowestoft
7:
342:Second British attack at Bellewaarde
242:2nd East Riding Artillery Volunteers
210:Lieutenant-General Sir Andrew Clarke
32:East Riding Fortress Royal Engineers
1037:Watson & Rinaldi, pp. 294, 296.
1016:Watson & Rinaldi, pp. 169, 186.
614:50th (Northumbrian) Divisional Area
318:1/1st East Riding Field Company, RE
232:. The new company was entitled the
47:RE Cap badge (King George V cipher)
1191:, Aldershot: Ogilby Trusts, 1982,
308:) and again on 24 April 1916 (the
180:was a volunteer unit of Britain's
25:
1144:Humber Artillery at Regiments.org
1275:, Wembley: R.A. Westlake, 1983,
1133:73 Engineer Rgt at Regiments.org
1119:72 Engineer Rgt at Regiments.org
1105:72 Engineer Rgt at Sappers site.
1092:Watson & Rinaldi, pp. 314β5.
906:The National Archives (TNA), Kew
707:129 (East Riding) Field Squadron
234:Humber Division Submarine Miners
82:
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18:Humber Division Submarine Miners
1294:British Army units from 1945 on
677:Renfrewshire Fortress Engineers
570:No 3 (Yorkshire) AA Company, RE
566:North Riding Fortress Engineers
551:. TF troops were progressively
324:1/1st East Riding Field Company
312:), and was regularly bombed by
1226:History of the Royal Engineers
971:, pp. 128, 131, 139, 143, 151.
454:Battle of the Menin Road Ridge
184:formed for the defence of the
1:
1224:Maj-Gen R.P. Pakenham-Walsh,
1025:Pakenham-Walsh, pp. 30, 73β4.
1004:Watson & Rinaldi, p. 105.
868:RE Museum list of war diaries
348:, a subsidiary action to the
949:Watson & Rinaldi, p. 62.
858:Watson & Rinaldi, p. 69.
826:Watson & Rinaldi, p. 12.
733:The Scottish archaeologist
590:British Expeditionary Force
549:Occupation of the Rhineland
526:Battle of the Canal du Nord
426:Second Battle of the Scarpe
368:Actions of St. Eloi Craters
334:British Expeditionary Force
228:to man the defences of the
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1260:, Tiger Lily Books, 2018,
647:Allied Forces Headquarters
436:Third Battle of the Scarpe
421:First Battle of the Scarpe
248:in the coastal village of
936:Loos at Long, Long Trail.
711:Tyne Electrical Engineers
696:118 Construction Regiment
586:Tyne Electrical Engineers
373:Gas attacks at Wulverghem
304:on 16 December 1914 (the
40:
1301:The British Army in 1914
521:Second Battle of Bapaume
385:Battle of Bazentin Ridge
190:East Riding of Yorkshire
1318:23 October 2015 at the
981:Titles and Designations
926:Becke, Pt 1, pp. 49β55.
483:First Battle of Bapaume
473:German spring offensive
390:Battle of Delville Wood
293:On the outbreak of the
141:German spring offensive
598:Armistice with Germany
511:Hundred Days Offensive
459:Battle of Polygon Wood
146:Hundred Days Offensive
101:Electrical engineering
904:'Embarkation Dates',
559:Anti-aircraft defence
449:Third Ypres Offensive
136:Third Battle of Ypres
1325:The Long, Long Trail
1202:Capt Joseph Morris,
735:Charles S. T. Calder
715:Yorkshire Volunteers
498:Battle of Hazebrouck
478:Battle of St Quentin
886:on 22 December 2015
844:Becke, Pt 2b, p. 6.
769:Beckett, pp. 184β5.
645:), transferring to
536:Battle of the Selle
395:Battle of the Ancre
380:Battle of the Somme
126:Battle of the Somme
1308:Fort Paull website
1187:Ian F.W. Beckett,
958:Morris, pp 178β85.
804:Fort Paull website
760:Norfolk, pp. 38β9.
493:Battle of Estaires
1212:978-1-84588-379-9
993:Monthly Army List
815:Monthly Army List
728:Prominent members
531:Battle of Cambrai
503:Battle of Bethune
332:serving with the
270:Territorial Force
264:Territorial Force
222:Sir Albert Rollit
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