The majority of content on this site has been compiled using the images and items from his years in the British Army plus the unfinished memoirs of DV Hutchinson, which has no referencing to his original sources. All other [numbered] details have been included by myself to provide background and context which are credited below.
This non-profit project was created in good faith to preserve the memory of my Grandpa’s Military career and the exploits of his 12th Field Company RE in the form of a digital archive. Feel free to contact me for any further details and if you wish to link the content found here for your own use please do include references to the source. Many thanks.
If you believe that I have used your content in a manner that falls outside of ‘fair use’ under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, please email me directly at hutch_and_son@icloud.com to resolve the issue before requesting a DMCA takedown notice and I will be more than happy to resolve your request.
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- British Military History
- Liverpool Ships
- Casablanca Convoy
- Royal Military Artificers in Nova Scotia. Origins, Crimean/Boer Wars, Precursor to I Corps & RE Museum
- Battle of the Aisne
- Operation Banner
- 12 Para HQ Sp Sqn
- 6th Infantry Division Badge
- XIII Corps Badge
- Following links are for images and references found on WWII – Western Desert/Middle East page
- Holding camp near Egypt
- Soldier building barbed wire
- British tank towed up Halfway Pass
- Italian Prisoners of War
- Water point on Tobruk-Bardia Road
- Sapper buying lamp at Mena Camp
- Sapper Demonstrating MK1 mine detector
- Infantry at a gun position Mersa Matruh
- British Soldier bath night in Tobruk
- Haifa Station
- Military transport in Syria
- British Sappers repair a bridge Syria
- Australian and S African Sappers Syria
- General Wavell in Syria
- El Gubbi Aerodrome
- Polish Carpathians disembark at Tobruk
- Ack Ack and Searchlights over Tobruk
- Burnt out Britsh tank
- Christmas Day at Tobruk
- Following links are for images and references found on WWII – India/Burma/Pakistan page
- The Chindits and 4th Battalion Border Regiment
- George Wilton, ‘Forgotten Chindits–23 British Infantry Brigade’, British Journal, 6.3 (2020), pp.124-126
- Conventional Warfare in the Nuclear Age by Otto Heillbrunn published by Routledge in 1965
- 44th (Indian) Airborne Division
- Private Harry Owens Collection of Images
- Christmas Island
- Osnabruck
- Operation Banner
- Vogelsang Ranges
- No. 2 Troop 12th Field Squadron
- Operation Granby
- 12th Field Squadron deployments 1947-1999
- 12 (Nova Scotia) HQ & Sp Sqn RE
- 12 Para HQ Sp Sqn Badge
- 12 Parachute Headquarters & Support Squadron
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