Historical Documents

Address given by Rear Admiral Ritchie - 24 February 1991

S.H.A.E.F. Operation Memorandum - "Map Co-ordinates"

S.H.A.E.F. Operation Memorandum "Artillery and Engineer Survey"

Miscellaneous Notes

Dominion and Colonial Survey Units

Miscellaneous Theatres

France, Belgium, Holland and Germany 1944-45

Italy

North West Africa

South East Asia

Persia and Iraq

Italian East Africa

The Middle East

British American Mapping Policy

Home Defence and Preparation for Offensive Operations 1940 - 1944

France and Belgium 1939 -40

Basic Survey Organizations in the United Kingdom

Maps and Surveys Contents and Preliminaries

Maps and Surveys Title Page

Maj Samuel Anderson 1839 - 1881

Maj Gen Thomas Colby 1774 - 1852

Brig Guy Bomford 1899-1996

Sir William de Wiveleslie Abney

Maj Charles John Darrah 1835 - 1871

Thomas Drummond 1797 - 1840

Maj Gen R C A Edge 1912 -1999

Col John Marshall Grant -1822 - 1902

Gen Sir John Summerfield Hawkins

Brig Martin Hotine CMG CBE

Maj Gen Sir Henry James FRS MRIA

Maj Gen Sir Thomas Larcom Bt

Maj Gen Richard Clement Moody

Henry Spencer Palmer

Maj Gen Robert Mann Parsons

Wg Cdr Thomas Hugh Hamshaw RA RFC RAF 1885 -1962

Maj Gen Sir Charles Wilson 1836-1919

Lt Col William Yolland CB FR

Compiled by Brigadier A.B. Clough, C.B.E., M.C. Published by The War Office, 1952.

Authors: Sir Lawrence Bragg, C.B., OBE, M.C., F.R.S, Major General A.H.Dowson, C.B, C.B.E, Lieutenant Colonel H.H. Hemming, O.B.E., M.C.

Part 1. 1924

Transcribed from the “Souvenir Programme for the 150th Anniversary of the formation of 13 Field Survey Squadron Royal Engineers”

Author: B.B. Titchener, Capt. R.E.

Author: Captain C.O.S. Robbins RE 1975

Author: Alan Gordon

Based on four sources of historical material : - a. Brigadier A.B. Clough’s monograph “Maps and Survey”, H.M.S.O., 1952. b. References, mainly war diaries, held in the National Archives at Kew. c. Anecdotal souvenir histories produced by the units. d. Personal accounts or reminiscences and correspondence regarding the same.

Transcribed from the “Souvenir Programme 150th Anniversary 19 Topographic Squadron Royal Engineers 1827-1977”

Based on four sources of historical material : - a. Brigadier A.B. Clough’s monograph “Maps and Survey”, H.M.S.O., 1952. b. References, mainly war diaries, held in the National Archives at Kew. c. Anecdotal souvenir histories produced by the units. d. Personal accounts or reminiscences and correspondence regarding the same.

Based on four sources of historical material : - a. Brigadier A.B. Clough’s monograph “Maps and Survey”, H.M.S.O., 1952. b. References, mainly war diaries, held in the National Archives at Kew. c. Anecdotal souvenir histories produced by the units. d. Personal accounts or reminiscences and correspondence regarding the same.

Based on four sources of historical material : - a. Brigadier A.B. Clough’s monograph “Maps and Survey”, H.M.S.O., 1952. b. References, mainly war diaries, held in the National Archives at Kew. c. Anecdotal souvenir histories produced by the units. d. Personal accounts or reminiscences and correspondence regarding the same.

This article has been written as a result of telephone conversations between Col.M.Nolan and Harry Calder on 14-9-07, 19-9-07, ??-9-07, and 8-10-07, 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.

No unit history exists for this unit. The notes on various sources are in lieu of a unit history until the compilation of one is addressed.

Based on four sources of historical material : - a. Brigadier A.B. Clough’s monograph “Maps and Survey”, H.M.S.O., 1952. b. References, mainly war diaries, held in the National Archives at Kew. c. Anecdotal souvenir histories produced by the units. d. Personal accounts or reminiscences and correspondence regarding the same.

Based on four sources of historical material : - a. Brigadier A.B. Clough’s monograph “Maps and Survey”, H.M.S.O., 1952. b. References, mainly war diaries, held in the National Archives at Kew. c. Anecdotal souvenir histories produced by the units. d. Personal accounts or reminiscences and correspondence regarding the same.

Based on four sources of historical material : - a. Brigadier A.B. Clough’s monograph “Maps and Survey”, H.M.S.O., 1952. b. References, mainly war diaries, held in the National Archives at Kew. c. Anecdotal souvenir histories produced by the units. d. Personal accounts or reminiscences and correspondence regarding the same.

Compiled by: W.E. Browne, Major R.E., O.C. 521 (Corps Fd. Svy.) Coy., R.E.

Based on four sources of historical material : - a. Brigadier A.B. Clough’s monograph “Maps and Survey”, H.M.S.O., 1952. b. References, mainly war diaries, held in the National Archives at Kew. c. Anecdotal souvenir histories produced by the units. d. Personal accounts or reminiscences and correspondence regarding the same.

Based on four sources of historical material : - a. Brigadier A.B. Clough’s monograph “Maps and Survey”, H.M.S.O., 1952. b. References, mainly war diaries, held in the National Archives at Kew. c. Anecdotal souvenir histories produced by the units. d. Personal accounts or reminiscences and correspondence regarding the same.

Author: M.N. MacLeod, Lt Col R.E.

Written by I.C. Booth, Major, Officer Commanding.

British Salonika Force from 1 January 1917 to 10 April 1919

A Short History of 22 Map Production Squadron 1849 – 1976.

Photographs of visit

Special Charts and Publications produced by the Hydrographic Department Volume 1 (text) Admiralty 1949 C.B. 3200A. 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.

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”.

The Evacuation of Malayan Survey Department Military Maps and Mapping Material from Singapore to Australia February 1942

The Survey Service Eastern and 14 ARMY 1942 – 1945. Report by Col. G. Bomford.

Report on the Work of the Sixth Field Survey Company in Italy . November 1917 to November 1918

The account is taken from “A Brief Record of the Advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force under the command of General Sir Edmund H.H. Allenby GCB, GCMG, July 1917 - Oct 1918”, H.M.S.O. 1919.

Report on the work of the Seventh Field Survey Company RE. Egypt, Sinai, Palestine and Syria. December 1916 to October 1918

Reprinted from pamphlet issued by the British General Staff 1916. Edited at the Army War College, Washington, D.C., May 1917

3rd Field Company R.E.

Issued by General Staff I (c), G.H.Q.; No 38.- Notes on Ranging our Own Guns. 24 July 1918

History of the 4th Field Survey Battalion RE. by Lt Col M N Macleod DSO MC RE, Commanding Officer

PROVISIONAL. Winterbotham's preliminary report. This was consultyed and largely used in preparing the official report.

Paper on Sound Ranging

Report on the work of the Sixth Field Survey Company in Italy. November 1917 to November 1918.