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Royal Engineers

Categories: Armed Forces, Engineering

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A corps of the British Army. It provides military engineering and other technical support to the British Armed Forces. Known as 'sappers' apparently from the French 'sappe' meaning 'spadework' or 'trench' but it's not in our French dictionary so perhaps it's obsolete. They date back to the time of William the Conqueror.

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RAF POWs lost in Borneo

RAF POWs lost in Borneo

Members of the Royal Air Force who died by the actions of their captors whilst prisoners of war in Sandakan - Ranau, N. Borneo, 1943 - 45.

Group, Armed Forces, Borneo

1 memorial
Sir William Reid

Sir William Reid

A member of the Executive Committee for the Great Exhibition 1851.Born Kinglassie, Fifeshire. Soldier, Fellow of the Royal Society (of Science) and Governor of Bermuda, Barbados & Malta.

Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration, Science, Caribbean Islands, Malta, Scotland

1 memorial
Captain Broderick Hartwell

Captain Broderick Hartwell

Naval officer.  RN Lieut-Governor of Greenwich Hospital.  We think this is Broderick Robert Hartwell - born Ireland, with the dates we've given.

Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Col. Robert Slingsby

Col. Robert Slingsby

Naval officer and administrator.  Died of typhus at home in Lime Street.  Some information at Pepys' Diary.

Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration

1 memorial

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Esther du Bois

Esther du Bois

Related to William and Anne du Bois.

Person, Friend / family

1 memorial
St Benet Gracechurch

St Benet Gracechurch

Name derives from the nearby hay (or grass) market. Lost in the Great Fire, rebuilt by Wren, demolished 1876.

Building, Religion

1 memorial