Tuesday 14 April 2015

Reinforcements for the East Anglian Royal Engineers




Wednesday 14th April 1915: At present the 1st Field Company, East Anglian Royal Engineers, attached to 2nd Division, are constructing dugouts and repairing trenches in the area of Givenchy-lès-la-Bassée. Today they have received substantial reinforcements of thirty new sappers and ten new drivers from England.

Sources: 1st East Anglian Royal Engineers war diary at The National Archives [WO951332/1]

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