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| Top Moose   Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs
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 | WC Ostler RASC. My turn to ask for help. Here's another of my Upper Stratton War Dead.
Anyone know about 1 Ordnance Field Park, what exactly did they do? Who were they attatched to, Divison ,Corps,Army level? Basically anything will do to add info. Thanks. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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08-06-2007, 07:42 AM
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| Finally have a photo of his Grave. Was sent it by this chap. Ralph McLean Project Director South Africa War Graves Project http://www.southafricawargraves.org/ Box 35 The Pas, Manitoba R9A 1K3 Canada Tel: 204-623-1518 |
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08-06-2007, 08:17 AM
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2nd Infantry Division Back to QuickLinks 8th Reconnaissance Regiment (14th Canadian Hussars) 4th Infantry Brigade The Royal Regiment of Canada The Royal Hamilton Light Infantry The Essex Scottish Regiment 4th Infantry Brigade Company, R.C.A.S.C. 4th Infantry Brigade Workshop, R.C.E.M.E. 5th Infantry Brigade The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada Le Régiment de Maisonneuve The Calgary Highlanders 5th Infantry Brigade Company, R.C.A.S.C. 5th Infantry Brigade Workshop, R.C.E.M.E. 6th Infantry Brigade Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada The South Saskatchewan Regiment 6th Infantry Brigade Company, R.C.A.S.C. 6th Infantry Brigade Workshop, R.C.E.M.E. The Toronto Scottish Regiment (Machine Gun) 4th Field Regiment, R.C.A. 5th Field Regiment, R.C.A. 6th Field Regiment, R.C.A. 2nd Anti-Tank Regiment, R.C.A. 3rd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, R.C.A. 1st Field Park Company, R.C.E. 2nd Field Company, R.C.E. 7th Field Company, R.C.E. 11th Field Company, R.C.E. 2nd Infantry Divisional Signals, R.C.C.S. 2nd Infantry Divisional Troops Company, R.C.A.S.C. No. 10 Field Ambulance, R.C.A.M.C. No. 11 Field Ambulance, R.C.A.M.C. No. 18 Field Ambulance, R.C.A.M.C. No. 2 Infantry Divisional Ordnance Field Park, R.C.O.C. No. 2 Infantry Troops Workshop, R.C.E.M.E. 6th Australian Infantry Division - Raised 28 September 1939 2/1st Field Regiment, RAA (New South Wales) 2/2nd Field Regiment, RAA (Victoria) 2/3rd Field Regiment, RAA (South Australia, Western Australia, Darwin and NSW) 2/5th Field Regiment, RAA (Queensland and Tasmania) - Converted to 2/1st Anti-Tank Regiment in 2/40 2/1st Australian Machine-Gun Regiment 2/1st Australian Pioneer Battalion 6th Australian Divisional Cavalry 2/1st Field Company, RAE - Sydney, New South Wales 2/2nd Field Company, RAE - Melbourne, Victoria 2/3rd Field Company, RAE - Tasmania/Western Australia/South Australia 2/1st Field Park Company, RAE - Queensland ‘Dear Freyberg, The 5th Field Park Coy, New Zealand Engineers is leaving Barce tomorrow to rejoin you at Helwan. I want to let you know what good work the unit has done. We had no Corps Troops Field Park Company of our own, and your unit filled the bill most admirably. ‘At the start of the campaign, 5th Field Park Coy was at Maaten Bagush operating the water supply. For the attack on Nebeiwa etc, I needed water points further forward, along the Matruh-Siwa road. There was little enough time for the work, and the fact that two hundred tons of water a day was available at these points was due largely to the efforts of 5th Field Park Coy.
__________________ Spidge,  ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm Last edited by spidge; 08-06-2007 at 08:31 AM. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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08-06-2007, 08:34 AM
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| Another one here Owen. Seems similar to the CB's etc. PictureAustralia - BOUGAINVILLE. 1945-05-21. SAPPER BILLINGS, 58 CORPS, FIELD PARK COMPANY (1), OPERATING A BULLDOZER DURING THE RECONSTRUCTION OF A SECTOR OF THE BUIN ROAD THROUGH EGAN'S RIDGE BY 15 FIELD PARK ...
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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08-06-2007, 09:15 AM
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| Cheers Geoff, but a Field Park Company in the RE is diferent to an Ordnance Field Park. In that list you posted this is nearer the mark than an RE unit. No. 2 Infantry Divisional Ordnance Field Park, R.C.O.C. |
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08-06-2007, 10:36 AM
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On my way to basketball so you may find it out by the time I get back.
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm | |
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