MOD Matters

DSA MATTERS

Development of the DSA Website

David Wallis as a Guest of the Council

The Revd Adam Scott OBE TD

AGM and Brooklands Visit

Prizewinners 2007

David A Wallis: 40 Years Service to the Association

Maps and Surveys Seminar 2008

ESRI support for DSA

New DSA Website

Visit to Apsley House

Macleod on the Field Survey Association

Prizewinners 2006

The Ernest Ramus Award for Outstanding Service

Military Maps Among the Dreaming Spires (Oxford Visit)

British Library, Visit to

DSA 80^th Anniversary Seminar ‘Maps and Surveys 2007’

SRA through FSA to DSA: 80 Years of Defence Surveying

The Worship Company of Scientific Instrument Makers Dinner

From the Chairman

Prizewinners 2005

Special Prize: RE (Geo) Recruiting Team 2005

AGM and Visit to the Shuttleworth Collection

Report on the BCS/DSA Military Mapping Seminar May 2006

PLA at Gravesend, Visit to

DSA’s New Website Launched

Prizewinners 2004

AGM and Visit to Chicksands

DSA Visit to No 1 AIDU RAF

DSA Visit to the D-Day Beaches of Normandy

Prizewinners 2003

Handover of Association Presidency

David Wallis & Ken Joels

Prizewinners 2002

Atlantic Wall and Fortress Europe, Visit to

Technical Event at BAE Systems Farnborough

Cinet War Room, Visit to

Bletchley Park, Visit to

DSA Golden Jubilee Event

Fort Nelson, Visit to

The Medmenham Club

Battlefields of Europe, Visit to

Firepower, Visit to

Chicksands, Visit to

Major General Eric Barton

The Medmenham Club

Lionel Lacey-Johnson

Royal Marines Museum, Visit to

Prizewinners 2000

Prizewinners 1999

Old Royal Observatory, Visit to

The Science Museum Wroughton, Visit to

Logo Competition Winner

Prizewinners 1998

HQ RA Larkhill, Visit to

Silver Centre-piece

Logo Design Competition

HQ No II (Fighter) Group Ops Room, Visit to

Flagship Portsmouth Marine Heritage Museum, Visit to

RAF Uxbridge HQ No 11 Group Fighter Command, Visit to

SMS and the Museum of History of Science Oxford, Visit to

Bletchley Park, Visit to

RSA Larkhill Visit to

VE Day 50^th Anniversary Symposium with RICS

HMS Hecla, Visit to

Report of FSA Archivist

Hon Sec, Profile of

Joint meeting with RICS

FSA – The Next two Years

Presentation of Silver Salver to the Hydrographic Squadron

Surveyor at War Symposium at RUSI

FSA Archivist Appointed

National Museum of Artillery – FSA Update

FSA Annual Awards 1973 – 1992

Captain N Gray RE

RA Heritage Appeal supported by FSA

Surveyors at War – FSA Symposium at SMS

Report on Visit to India 1990

The View from Across the Pond

GEOINT Omelettes in New Zealand

Review of the RE (Geographic) Specialisation

Military Survey – What’s in a Name

Intelligence Collection Group

End of an Era: RSMS Joins the Defence College of Intelligence

Major (Ret’d) A Keeley RE

DGI – Defence Geospatial Intelligence

Award of Science Foundation Degree to Class 1 Military Engineer Technicians (Geographic)

The U.K. Hydrographic Office and Defence

Lt Cdr D Wyatt RN

MOD goes Joint on Environmental Information

Captain I Turner RN

RA Survey, the future of

RA Survey, future of

Royal Artillery Survey, The future of

Royal Artillery Survey, The future of – a personal view

European Army – Fact or Fiction

Lt Col A Cross RE

New Professional Recognition for Hydrographic Surveyors

Lt Cdr Tony Jenks RN

The Evolution of the Military Engineer Geographic Technician

Major Tony Keeley RE

Hydrographic Training in the Royal Navy

Lt Cdr Steve Shipman RN

Hydrographer to this Board

Captain M Barritt RN

Formation of 42 Engineer Regiment (Geographic)

Major AR Wilby RE

Formation of DGIA

Major J Kedar RE

19 Topographic Squadron RE, Disbandment

94^th Locating Regiment RA, Suspended Animation of

19 Topographic Squadron RE, Disbandment of

Foundation Degree Graduation Ceremony

Not a Routine Wreck Investigation

Soundings from the Devonport Flotilla

Lt Cdr K Fyfe RN

Falkland Islands Map Display

An Usual Enterprise: Commissioning HMS Enterprise

Captain Vaughan Nail RN

In the Footsteps of Captain Pemberton Leach VC RE

Major H McCarthy RE

Defence Geographic Centre Open Day

They want WHAT! By WHEN!: DGC Support to Operations 2006

Guy Warrington-Brown

Soundings from the Devonport Flotilla

Lt Cdr P Payne RN

Surveillance and Target Acquisition with ASP on Op TELIC

Major R Perry RA

Hugging the Bear: Continuing Thaw in UK/Russia Relations

Soundings from the Devonport Flotilla

Cdr J Faulkner RN

14 Geographic Squadron RE Celebrates 180 Years

Provision of Geographic Support to UK Operations

Major D Rowlands RE

Geospatial Lessons Identified from Exercise Joint Venture

Lt Col M Burrows RE

Sumatra Survey by HMS Scott

Lt Cdr L Gritt RN

A Year in the Life of 42 Survey Engineer Regiment

Lt Col M Burrows RE

Soundings from the Devonport Flotilla

Cdr JJ Faulkner RN

135 Independent Geo Squadron (V) 2003

Captain B Tennuci RE

A Swedish Experience

Engineer Surveying in The Gulf

SSgt R Williams RE

Operation TELIC II, Geographic Support to

Captain P Richardson RE

Soundings from the Devonport Flotilla

Cdr S Malcolm RN

Operation TELIC, Sound Ranging on

Major A Parkinson RA

MOD Map Library, Relocation of

Naval Party 1008, Introduction to the operations of

Lt Cdr J Churcher RN

Naval Party 1016, Inshore Survey

Lt Cdr C Thompson RN

Hydro’s First Replenishment at Sea

Captain RJ Campbell RN

Replenishment at Sea

Cdr S Malcolm RN

A New Painting for Geographic Engineer Group

Major J Brammer RE

Operations in the Gulf, support by Geographic Engineer Group

Captain P Richardson RE

Devonport Flotilla, Soundings from

Cdr S. Malcolm RN

Survey Ships, next generation of, HMS Echo & Enterprise

Cdr S. Malcolm RN

HMS Roebuck’s War in Iraq

Ace Rapid Reaction Corps, Geographic Support to

Major H McCarthy RE

Exercise Patagonia Apogee 2002

Captain MG Jenkins RE

Support to Operations by 42 Engineer Regiment (Geographic)

Lt Col J Kedar RE

Afghanistan – Deployment to

Major J Adlington RE

Op Jacana – The story

Exercise Dhowes Landing – Normandy Visit

The View from Defiance Building

Cdr Vaughan Nail RN

42 Engineer Regiment (Geographic) Operations Update

Lt Col J Kedar RE

Australian Army Survey Unit Update

Fifteen Stars Say Goodbye to Rita

Hydrographic Surveying Squadron Round Up 2001

Lt Cdr J Churcher RN

Geographic Support to Operations

Lt Col J Kedar RE

Geographic Support in the New Zealand Defence Force

The Terry Straeter Prize: Prizewinner’s Report

Relocating the Map Library

Geographic Support to Operation Agricola – Kosovo

Major J Owens RE

The Map Depot – A Change of Location and Name

All Change at 135 Squadron

The Terry Straeter Prize for Photogrammetry

‘Apogeans’ The First to Climb Central Asian Mountains

WO1 MG Jenkins RE

Hydrographic Surveying Squadron: Current Operations

Cdr I Bartholomew RN

DGIA Support to Operations in Sierra Leone

Major GC Price RA

50^th Anniversary of 135 Independent Topographic Squadron RE

The TA Today: 135 Indep Topo Sqn RE(V)

Captain AP Shell RE

UK Cruise Support Activity

The Apogee Expeditions

WO1 MG Jenkins RE

50^th Anniversary of 135 Survey Engineer Regiment

Visit to Hermitage by HM the Queen

Long Survey Course SMS, 50^th anniversary

Visit of Mr John Major to Hermitage

Military Survey 250^th anniversary programme

Bosnia, Parade for duties in

Hydrographer of the Navy – Bicentenary of

Mortar Locating in Sarajevo Total Exclusion Zone

Captain AM Lewis RA

SMS – Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers Link

Hydrographic Squadron Centenary

The Artillery Battle – Op Granby

Desert Storm - The Artillery Battle

Desert Storm - The Surveyor at War

Survey Units Reunion 1993

Jonathon Shears

The Geospatial Storm. How to find the Right Raindrop

MAKEFAST BISA

Leica, Infoterra and the UK MOD

GEOINT or Just Back to Basics

Lt Col Rupert Dash RE

Additional Military Layers

The Afghanistan Country Stility Picture

SSgt W Robinson RE

Future Terrain Analysis

Singapore Relief Map 1945

MIDAS: A HALO Deployment Aid

WO2(SMIG) S Fenton RA

The Recognised Environmental Picture and Tactical Systems

The Whitehall Crystal Ball: The Next Twenty Years

Brigadier NRN Rigby

The Aeronautical Production System (APS)

Commercial Satellite Imagery

Battlefield Management Evaluation Capility Farnborough

BAE Press Release

Datase Enled Capility, where next in

Map Management in the 21^st Century

Andrew Blenkinsopp

Surveying, Can we afford to forget the basics

Peter Wood & Ted Price

Military Geographic Information in 21^st Century

Lt Col JF Prain RE

The Watchkeeper Project

Cleared for Take Off (Automated Air Cartography)

Mapping Great Britain at 1 Metre Z Values

Naval Minehunting

What is FIG and What it Does

Multispectral Trials 2000

Major D Rowlands RE

New Survey Ships and Systems for the Royal Navy

Lone, Kristensen & Pøhner

Admiralty Charts in the Making

Airborne Sensor Rapid Precision Targeting Technology

Geo-information Management

Digital Mapping for the Military

Pile High the Faggots (New RA Technology)

Geographic Imagery is Knowledge

The Never-Ending Uses of GPS

Lt Col JF Prain RE

Defence Needs and the Commercial Response

Geographic Information from Plane Tle to Satellite

Lt Col JF Prain RE

GIS Systems & the Electronic Battlefield

ArcView 3D – Launch of by ESRI

Bomford Memorial Symposium

Art of Surveying Exhibition

Speeding detected by Satellites?

Geomatics, definition

En-Route Charts, printing of

HALO goes into service – Sound Ranging

Maps Made to Order – OS Maps

British Weapon Location – Effect of end of the Cold War

Hermitage and the School of Military Survey: 60 Years Ago

The Royal Artillery Operation for Locating V2 Launch Sites

Army Survey Course Reflections

Surveying Recorder Centenary 1907 – 2007

14 Field Survey Company RE in the Falklands

Mapping for the Falklands

Liz Manterfield & Dr John Peaty

25^th Anniversary Op Corporate: Military Survey Involvement

Lt Col JS Himbury RE

25^th Anniversary Op Corporate: Hydrographic Surveying Squadron Involvement

Extract from RN Hydro Annual Report 1982

Sound Ranging in the Great War

Lawrence Bragg’s Role in Developing Sound Ranging

William Van Der Kloot

Great War Memoirs of a Flash Spotter

Suez 1956 – I Was (Almost) There

The Russian World Mapping Programme

Kleptomaniac or Cartoholic

A Long Career: A Lifetime of Change

Greetings from Christmas Past: Unit Christmas Cards

Soviet Military Mapping of Britain

Hydrographic Surveys in SEAC: HMS White Bear 1944-46

Farewell to the Canberra

Cometh the Hour Cometh the Map: Lt Col TB Jervis

A First for Surveyors and a First for World Heritage: The Struve Arc

The Last Days of 84 Survey Squadron RE

The Time of Our Lives

Introduction to the 1985 – 2005 Issue

1985 – 2005 Twenty Tumultuous Years

The Last 20 Years: The Hydrographer’s Personal Reflection

Captain I Turner RN

The Evolution of Multibeam Echo Sounding

Swings and Roundouts: Military Survey – Organisational Aspects

Career Opportunities in the Military Geographic Branch

Twenty Years of Commercial Production

20 Years of Field Survey

From Eisenhower to Google Earth

20 Years of GIS in Defence

1985 – Then and now, a Laser-Scan Perspective

Squadron Production

Twenty Years of Aeronautical Cartography

Twenty Years of Map Supply

Cartographic Engineering

Survey Production Centre “Hillside”

BCS HMMG Special Interest Group

Early Days of Sound Ranging on The Western Front

Tony Grange-Bennett

A Monk Goes Sound Ranging

Tony Grange-Bennett

Combined Ops Mapping/Hydro Surveying Symposium – Review

Book Review: As It Was – Highlights of Hydrographic Survey

Elephants and the (not so) Flat Earth

The Several Portraits of Colonel LA Hall

Overlord in Perspective

Hydrographic Support to D-Day

Rear Admiral RO Morris

712^th Landing Craft Personnel (Survey) Flotilla

Lt Cdr FM Berncastle RN

Normandy Reconnaissance

Cdr Nisbet Glen RN

Decca Navigation System, Birth of

Rear Admiral GS Ritchie

With H.M.S. Scott to Normandy

Rear Admiral GS Ritchie

D-Day – Commemorative Map

Hydrographic Chart Production 1944 & 2004

Old D-Day Maps, Ousitreham, review of

Overlord, Military Survey and

Overlord, Mapping for

Liberation of Europe, Air Survey in

16 Squadron and P.R.U.

Overlord , Allied Aerial reconnaissance for, Forgotten Frames

D-Day, The Lost Evidence, review of

Overlord, Canadian Surveyors and

Overlord, Air Survey Mapping for

D-Day Maps – Martian Legend on

Overlord, Top Secret Mapping for

Normandy, Field Survey in

Overlord, Map Supply, The Grande Finale

Pegasus Bridge, the Battle for

Normandy, Bogus Mapping

Op Neptune, Genesis & Development of Chart Maps used in

Sound Ranging Remembered

Book Review: Measuring America

Book Review: Mapping the World

Brigadier Fraser Scott

Ordnance Survey Apprentice Tradesmen Boys RE

Fake Map, Rommel foxed by

Brigadier RE Fryer

British Schools Exploring Society, Survey leaders with

Topographer, the shocking tale of a

Captain Edward Pemberton Leach

Iraq 1914-1918, Mapping the War in

Iraq, Mapping of, a recurring 20th century story

Iraq, Saga of O.C’s Car & Iraqi Taxi Driver

Colonel DV Hutchinson

1^st Independent Sound Ranging Battery

Angola, a reconnaissance & Intelligence Gathering trip to

Survey for Trench Mortars in WW 1

To Pakistan – Twice

Sudan 1940 – Survey with a difference

Airman with the Gunners

Trench Mortars WW1 – Notes on Survey for

My Favourite Map – Perhaps not quite

Lord Kitchener – Second attempt on life of

Border Surveying in Oman 1964

Airman with the Gunners – 1942

More out the Tavistock

Book Review – Kitchener’s Survey of Cyprus

Pig and Whistle and the Like

Surveying in Aden 1963 – 1964

Survey Support to the Artillery: Sicily 1943

Fifty Years (Almost) in Military Survey Part 2

Kitchener – The Surveyor

Rear Admiral GS Ritchie

Book Review: Flash Spotters and Sound Rangers

Life on the Ordnance Survey (1895)

A Survey in South Georgia

514 Field Survey Company: Postscript to Macdonald’s Article

Fifty Years (Almost) in Military Survey Part 1

Conference Report – Military Mapping in the 20^th Century

An Expedition to South Georgia

From Logs to Log-on: Survey Competitions on the Desktop

Reminiscences of Kenya 1957 – 1959

514 Company in Eritrea 1941

The Strange Failure of German Sound Ranging in WW1:Part 2

Book Review: Flash Spotters and Sound Rangers

Book Review: Popular Maps

The Strange Failure of German Sound Ranging in WW1:Part 1

Book Review: Artillery’s Astrologers

Barton, Smith and Scott

Book Review: Everest

Snapshots from 250 years of Military Survey

The Hell Ship Endeavour

Lt Cdr FM Berncastle RN

1^st Independent Sound Ranging Battery RA

Snapshots from 250 years of Military Survey Part 1

Bromsgrove School VC’s

Metre, 200^th Anniversary of introduction

Geodimeter, 50^th anniversary of introduction

From Shropshire to Paarl, Survey in WW1

World War 2, Surveyors in

Military Survey 1747-1997

Top Secret Mapping for Overlord

Captain (Retd) N Gray

Mapping Africa in the Olde Days

Aerial Photography & Pre-marking in East Africa – Anecdote

19^th Field Survey Company RE 1939-1946

Major J Herbert RE

D-Day Bathymetric Surveys

Cdr NC Glen OBE RN

Resection at Dover in 1937 – Anecdote

Beacon Banderol Sets R.A. Mk 3

Brigadier Fraser Scott?

Elusive Cairns – 19 Company in Iceland 1940

Coping with Battle Fatigue 1947

The Class of 52 – 50 years on

Experience with RE Surveyors in Western Desert

Lieutenant Ian Austin MBE RN (Retd)

Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Dash RE

Wing Commander Philip Speedy RAF

Lieutenant Commander AK Waddington RN

WO2 (SMIG) Jason Cartwright RA

John Knight Principal Lecturer RSMS

Lieutenant Colonel J Prain RE

Lieutenant Colonel MRH. Burrows RE

Lieutenant Colonel (Retd) M Stanbridge RE

Lieutenant Colonel Mike Gilson RE

Lieutenant Colonel John Kedar RE

Lieutenant Colonel GS Andrews – Canadian Surveyor