G'day all, Re Royal Engineers, I agree with Phil, I was one of them in later years 34 Field Park Sqn and we were definately not labourers, there is a number of websites for Royal Engineers which will give you the RE history from when they were formed. R J Tranter ex Sapper ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil White" <pwgrandmapa@comcast.net> To: <gloucester@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 10:15 PM Subject: [GLS] Army Engineers > Hi List, Exactly what Engineers did in the 19th Century etcis another > matter, but my brother in law went into Antwerp with 80 lbs of high > explosive on his back to clear the beach of tank traps, so they were a > heck of a lot more than labourers. Phil W > > _____________________________________________ > > Browse the list archives at: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GLOUCESTER/ > > Keyword search - any or all lists: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GLOUCESTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.6.2/779 - Release Date: 28/04/2007 > 3:32 PM > >

I don't think they were all labourers in the 1880-1890s either. My great grandad's 2 elder brothers were in the Royal Engineers. One of them served in the Boer War, the other left a couple of years before hand. One of them was in the Telegraph Division & the other was a Submariner Miner. Pat.xxx :o)) A Maid of Kent, UK. G'day all, Re Royal Engineers, I agree with Phil, I was one of them in later years 34 Field Park Sqn and we were definately not labourers, there is a number of websites for Royal Engineers which will give you the RE history from when they were formed. R J Tranter ex Sapper ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil White" <pwgrandmapa@comcast.net> To: <gloucester@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 10:15 PM Subject: [GLS] Army Engineers > Hi List, Exactly what Engineers did in the 19th Century etcis another > matter, but my brother in law went into Antwerp with 80 lbs of high > explosive on his back to clear the beach of tank traps, so they were a > heck of a lot more than labourers. Phil W > > _____________________________________________ > > Browse the list archives at: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GLOUCESTER/ > > Keyword search - any or all lists: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GLOUCESTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.6.2/779 - Release Date: 28/04/2007 > 3:32 PM > > _____________________________________________ Browse the list archives at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GLOUCESTER/ Keyword search - any or all lists: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GLOUCESTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message