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Remembered Today:

The Royal Pioneer Corps


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An interesting link with photographs for those interested:

"The Labour Corps, formed in February 1917, is generally regarded as a predecessor of the Royal Pioneer Corps."

"A typical pioneers job was this - be present under shell fire all day in support of the main attack. Then move forward and grab ground and dig trenches in so called no man's land under enemy fire at night. Go back before day break, sleep and start all over again. Casualties no object! " Captain G S Fillingham, 1916.

Check out > http://www.royalpioneercorps.co.uk/rpc/index.htm

Regards

Richard

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Pals might be interested to know that the historian for the RPC Association is Lt Col John Starling.

John is, of course, the colleague with whom I am writing the Labour Corps history.

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Guest Ian Bowbrick
Pals might be interested to know that the historian for the RPC Association is Lt Col John Starling.

John is, of course, the colleague with whom I am writing the Labour Corps history.

For those who have never met John, he has a wicked sense of humour :lol:

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