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A short history of 14 Map Repro Section RE 1943-45.
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Notes on the history of 516 Field Survey Company RE.
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Notes prepared by Mike Nolan and pictures of a visit to the Company by King Haakon of Norway on 8th October 1943.
A short history of the Field Survey Company Federated Malay States Volunteer Forces.
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This article has been written as a result of telephone conversations between Col.M.Nolan and Harry Calder during 2007, from Barry Calder’s interviews with Harry (his father) in October and November 2007 and from a few documents now in the possession of Barry Calder.
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A concise account of the work of the Hydrographic Department in World War Two may be found in : -
Through the courtesy of the National Archives, Kew, the Defence Surveyors’ Association is including Maps & Survey, H.M.S.O. on its web site.
In preparation for the invasion of Sicily, which took place in July 1943, the Geographical Section, General Staff, War Office, London produced an illustrated guide to the to the mapping situation in the Central Mediterranean theatre of operations entitled “Notes on the G.S.G.S. Maps of Italy, Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica, 1 May 1943”.
Through the courtesy of the UK Hydrographic Office Taunton, and with concurrence of the National Archives, Kew, the Defence Surveyors’ Association has included the Technical Staff Monograph C.B. 3200A on its web site as a companion document to Maps & Survey, H.M.S.O. 1952.
The evacuation of survey records from Malaya to Australia in 1942 is described by Brigadier Clough in four brief sentences on page 486 of his monograph “Maps and Survey - The War Office 1952”. A copy of the following account, on which Brigadier Clough may have drawn, has recently been discovered in the Rhodes House Library Oxford who have kindly given permission for its publication.
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The story of the 4th Durham Survey Regiment RA by Lt Col JT Whetton DSO, OBE, MC, TD and Lt Col RH Ogden MC, TD.
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