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Military Survey Unit Histories
Up one level13 Field Survey Squadron RE
A short history of the Squadron transcribed from the Souvenir Programme for the 150th anniversary of the formation of the unit.
Survey Unit Histories
Some documents refering to specific survey units have been included in this site but filed under the chronological periods covered by the unit histories. For ease for reference links to each of these histories are given below:
250 Years of Military Survey
A history by Yolande Hodson and Alan Gordon published in 1997 to mark the 250th anniversary of Military Survey.
Early Aeronautical Charts
This note highlights an episode in the fairly recent history of military mapping and charting for which the post First World War requirement for civil aeronautical charting was the catalyst. The tremendous growth of military aviation in the First World War and the need for Aeronautical Charts in the post-war period had resulted in the subject being addressed at the Peace Conference. In an Annex dated 10 April 1919, (1) entitled “International Aeronautical Maps and Ground Markings”, and referring to Clause 2 to Article 13, it was stated that international maps should be made and aeronautical ground marks established in accordance with certain principles.