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for each 1st Line unit where 60 per cent or more of the men had volunteered for
Overseas Service. The titles of these 2nd Line units would be the same as the original, but distinguished by a '2/' prefix. In the case of the Glamorgan Fortress Engineers 3rd Line and additional 1st Line units were also formed.
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In addition to operating searchlights for the coastal defence guns, the RE fortress companies began to utilise them in the Anti-Aircraft (AA) role . As the war progressed, and raids by airships and fixed wing bombers became more frequent, the RE formed specialist AA Searchlight
Companies. 1/3rd and
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Glamorgan Fortress Engineers went to their war stations in the Western Coast Defences. Shortly after the outbreak of war, TF units were invited to volunteer for overseas service and at the end of August the formation of a reserve or 2nd Line unit was authorised
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68th (2nd Welsh) Division came into existence in
January 1915 as the 2nd Line of the prewar Welsh Division (later 53rd (Welsh) Division). 441st and 442nd (Glamorgan) Field Companies joined it in November 1915 when the division was allotted a position in the Home Defence scheme and it joined
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Electric Light Companies of the Glamorgan Fortress Engineers are known to have operated in this manner in Home Defence. In January 1918, the AA defences were reorganised and RE searchlight personnel were attached to AA gun companies of the
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460:, responsible for defence of the East Coast. At the end of 1917 orders were received to break up the division. This process was completed on 8 April, when 550th Fd Co prepared to join the BEF and 551st Fd Co was broken up.
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Glamorgan Fortress Company, assigned (as 2/2nd Glamorgan Field Company) to 72nd Division by 20 November 1916, became 551st (Glamorgan) Field Company; in January 1918 converted into 551st (Glamorgan) Army Troops
485:(TA) in 1920–1 and the Glamorgan Fortress Engineers was reformed as an HQ and single No 1 (Electric Light & Works) Company at Barry as coast defence troops under 53rd (Welsh) Divisional area.
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units and the
Volunteer submarine miners were converted into electrical engineers to continue manning the electric searchlights of the harbour defences. The Cardiff unit briefly became the
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Britain's coastal defences was small, six of the fortress engineer units organised their 1st Line as 'Army Troops' companies for service on the
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Company; in January 1918 converted into 550th (Glamorgan) Army Troops Company and embarked to join the BEF 22 June 1918; with
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Engineers for this task. After successful trials the system was rolled out to ports around the country. In 1885 the
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Order of Battle of the Field Force in the United Kingdom, Part 4: Royal Engineers, 1940, TNA file WO 212/16.
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and in January 1917 it moved to Bedfordshire then in May to
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being installed to defend British seaports, he utilised the
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29 November 1915, became 441st (Glamorgan) Field Company
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September 1918, then with Second Army until June 1919
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588 Electrical & Mechanical Squadron at Barry –
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977:Eighth Army Order of Battle, TNA file WO 201/692.
592:The regiment formed part of 23 Engineer Group in
1227:, Chatham: Institution of Royal Engineers, 1958.
409:. In May 1917, 68th Division was transferred to
397:. At this time the division was concentrated in
1119:Royal Monmouthshire Engineers at Regiments.org.
267:When the Volunteers were subsumed into the new
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1177:Orders of Battle: Second World War, 1939–1945
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373:556th (Glamorgan) Army Troops Company, with
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1251:Graham E. Watson & Richard A. Rinaldi,
1234:, 1933/Uckfield: Naval & Military, nd,
345:1/1st Glamorgan Field Company, assigned to
161:it carried out defence work in England and
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1053:256–300 Sqns RE at British Army 1945 on.
1042:226–255 Sqns RE at British Army 1945 on.
1221:History of the Corps of Royal Engineers
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823:Glamorgan at Centenary Drill Halls.
421:, and the field companies moved to
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1163:, Aldershot: Ogilby Trusts, 1982,
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1108:Welsh Engineers at Regiments.org.
1004:Pakenham-Walsh, Vol VIII, p. 395.
986:Pakenham-Walsh, Vol VIII, p. 436.
569:with the following organisation:
294:No 1 Works Company at Park Street
1270:, Wembley: R.A. Westlake, 1983,
1193:Cliff Lord & Graham Watson,
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347:68th (2nd Welsh) Division
183:Allied invasion of Sicily
120:Allied invasion of Sicily
36:109 Construction Regiment
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873:Becke, Pt 2b, pp. 83–90.
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195:Lt-Gen Sir Andrew Clarke
1175:Joslen, H. F. (2003) .
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500:588 Army Troops Company
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1303:The Drill Hall Project
1296:The British Army, 1914
679:Westlake, pp. 8, 15–7.
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833:Becke, Pt 2b, p. 6.
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615:Honorary Commandant
1208:Col L.F. Morling,
1159:Ian F.W. Beckett,
1130:IWM WRM Ref 51093.
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