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BOOK of REMEMBRANCE RAILWAY TRANSPORTATION UNITS of the CORPS of ROYAL ENGINEERS, WORLD WAR II BOOK of REMEMBRANCE RAILWAY TRANSPORTATION UNITS of the CORPS of ROYAL ENGINEERS, WORLD WAR II On 27th September 1986, at Highley on the Severn Valley Railway, ex-LMS British Railways as No. 48773 in 1957, the locomotive was purchased for Stanier Class 8F locomotive No. 8233 (British Railways No. 48773), which was preservation by the Stanier 8F Locomotive Society when steam traction ended built to War Department order as WD 307 in 1940, was dedicated as the official on the national railway network in 1968, and was placed in operation on the Memorial to all British military railwaymen who gave their lives on active Severn Valley Railway in its former guise of LMS 8233, changed to British service in World War II. At the dedication service, conducted by the Very Railways 48773 in 1992. Reverend Peter Haynes, Dean of Hereford, commemorative plaques on the The gallant sacrifice of the men of the Royal Engineers Railway Transportation locomotive recording its operation by the Corps of Royal Engineers in Persia units who lost their lives in the War and its immediate aftermath is further (Iran) and Egypt were unveiled. commemorated by a Roll of Honour which has been compiled from Locomotive No. 307 was first placed in operation on the London Midland and information held by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. These were Scottish Railway (LMS) as No. 8233 until reclaimed by the War Department in dedicated by Lieutenant-General Sir Scott Grant, KCB, Chief Royal Engineer, late 1941 for operation by the Corps of Royal Engineers on the wartime supply on 3rd November 2002 at a service at Kidderminster on the Severn Valley route to Russia from the Persian Gulf to the Caspian Sea. Later, renumbered Railway, conducted by the Reverend James Symonds. The Roll of Honour is 70307 and subsequently 500, the locomotive remained in operation with the displayed at Bewdley Station on the Severn Valley Railway. The Books of Corps of Royal Engineers until 1957, initially in Egypt before repatriation to the Remembrance, of which this is one, are held in the Royal Engineers Museum at UK in 1952, when it served on the Longmoor Military Railway. Acquired by Brompton Barracks, Chatham and the Museum of Army Transport at Beverley. ROLL of HONOUR RANK NAME NUMBER UNIT DATE CEMETERY COUNTRY A Sapper Edward Abram 14376215 162 Rly. Construction Coy. RE 6/1/45 Schoonselhof Cemetery, Antwerpen Belgium Sapper David Rhydian Ace 1982798 151 Rly. Construction Coy. RE 26/5/40 Dunkirk Memorial France Sapper John Akeroyd 1892866 159 Rly. Construction Coy. RE 17/6/40 Dunkirk Memorial France Corporal William Gerald Allen 1898212 191 Rly. Operating Coy. RE 7/7/44 Calcutta (Bhowanipore) Cemetery India Sapper Clarence Alfred Ford Amos 2005877 601 Rly. Construction Coy. RE 29/6/43 Madras War Cemetery, Chennai India Sapper Alfred Ancell 14524248 602 Rly. Construction Coy. RE 10/2/44 Portsmouth (Kingston) Cemetery UK Sapper William Thomson Anderson 1981983 150 Rly. Construction Coy. RE 22/5/45 Forli War Cemetery Italy Sapper Albert Percy Aylward 1453743 922 Transportation Stores Coy. RE 16/12/44 Naples War Cemetery Italy B Sapper George William Baldwin 1923394 162 Rly. Construction Coy. RE 5/5/45 Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Germany Sapper Walter Henry Ball 2141214 150 Rly. Construction Coy. RE 11/5/46-12/5/46 Padua War Cemetery Italy Sapper William Barber 1898515 Railway Operating Division RE 31/10/42 Nottingham General Cemetery UK L/Corporal David Kerr Barrie 1899079 159 Rly. Construction Coy. RE 17/6/40 Dunkirk Memorial France Sapper Albert Robert Bartlett 2155281 189 Rly. Operating Coy. RE 6/3/43 El Alia Cemetery Algeria Sapper Frederick Bartlett 1983822 152 Rly. Construction Coy. RE 13/6/40 Rennes Eastern Communal Cemetery France Sapper Lewis Stevenson Barty 1887433 159 Rly. Construction Coy. RE 17/6/40 La Bernerie-en-Retz Communal Cemetery, Loire-Atlantique France Sapper Ernest William Bayliss 1926144 154 Rly. Operating Coy. RE 17/6/40 Rennes Eastern Communal Cemetery France Sapper Thomas Beadle 2001425 10 Rly. Construction and Operating Coy. RE 26/11/41 Asmara War Cemetery Eritrea L/Corporal Frederick William Beames 777043 159 Rly. Construction Coy. RE 17/6/40 Dunkirk Memorial France Corporal Thomas Edward Beaven 1983612 156 Transportation Stores Coy. RE 29/10/43 El Alia Cemetery Algeria Sapper Charles Beech 2019778 16 Rly. Battalion RE 16/10/40-17/10/40 Weaverham (St. Mary) Churchyard, Cheshire UK Sapper John Reginald Beech 1909231 10 Rly. Construction and Operating Coy. RE 20/9/41 Asmara War Cemetery Eritrea WOII (CSM) Frederick John Bennett 1863807 159 Rly. Construction Coy. RE 17/6/40 Yves Communal Cemetery, Charente-Maritime France Sapper Arthur George Betteridge 1926501 156 Transportation Stores Coy. RE 17/6/40 Dunkirk Memorial France Corporal Charles Herbert Beuzeval 1871767 604 Rly. Construction Coy. RE 26/10/42 Chittagong War Cemetery Bangladesh Sapper Leslie Ernest Bilton 2019205 604 Rly. Construction Coy. RE 27/8/44 Chittagong War Cemetery Bangladesh Sapper William Edward Bingham 1511223 164 Rly. Operating Coy. RE 10/2/43 Sutton-in-Ashfield (Huthwaite) Cemetery, Nottinghamshire UK RANK NAME NUMBER UNIT DATE CEMETERY COUNTRY Sapper Robert Eli Bisacre 2364040 164 Rly. Operating Coy. RE 4/2/45 Schoonselhof Cemetery, Antwerpen Belgium L/Corporal Leonard Blackshaw 14705990 603 Rly. Construction Coy. RE 13/11/46 Knightsbridge War Cemetery, Acroma Libya Sapper George Henry Boundy 1898245 193 Rly. Operating Coy. RE 25/12/41 Bushbury (St. Mary) Churchyard, Wolverhampton UK Sapper Wilfred Bourne 1889970 159 Rly. Construction Coy. RE 28/5/40-23/6/40 Le Clion-sur-Mer Communal Cemetery, Loire-Atlantique France Sapper Henry James Bradshaw 2213594 150 Rly. Construction Coy. RE 22/9/46 Liverpool (Toxteth Park) Cemetery UK Sapper Samuel Braithwaite 14516220 8 Rly. Construction Coy. RE 21/6/44 Bayeux War Cemetery, Calvados France Sapper George Harry James Brazneill 5181204 152 Rly. Construction Coy. RE 18/6/45 Jonkerbos War Cemetery Netherlands Sapper John Breeze 1927307 190 Rly. Operating Coy. RE 17/6/40 Les Moutiers-en-Retz Communal Cemetery, Loire-Atlantique France Sapper William Brennan 765278 152 Rly. Construction Coy. RE 17/9/41 Cardiff (Western) Cemetery Memorial UK L/Corporal George Alfred Houghton Briggs 1984394 199 Rly. Workshop Coy. RE 4/7/43 Ramleh War Cemetery Israel Sapper Harold Charles Britchford 2156262 189 Rly. Operating Coy. RE 15/4/44 Massicault War Cemetery Tunisia L/Sergeant Frederick George Britt 311142 154 Rly. Operating Coy. RE 17/6/40 Rennes Eastern Communal Cemetery France Corporal Ernest Brown 3388159 192 Rly. Operating Coy. RE 20/7/41 Lees Cemetery, Oldham UK Sapper James Buchan Brown 1887700 159 Rly. Construction Coy. RE 17/6/40 Dunkirk Memorial France Sapper William Walter Brown 1512139 192 Rly. Operating Coy. RE 27/6/43 Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery Iraq Sapper James Paton Bryan 1899084 159 Rly. Construction Coy. RE 17/6/40 La Bernerie-en-Retz Communal Cemetery, Loire-Atlantique France Sapper Leslie Francis Bryant 5773007 10 Rly. Construction and Operating Coy. RE 16/11/43 Bari War Cemetery Italy Lieutenant Charles John Buckley 364739 164 Rly. Operating Sqn. RE 15/7/47 Saddleworth (St. Chad) New Churchyard, Uppermill, Oldham UK Sapper Charles Dennis Byles 2012623 153 Rly. Operating Coy. RE 15/3/44 Bari War Cemetery Italy C Sapper Hugh Cadby 14571096 603 Rly. Construction Coy. RE 16/12/44 Schoonselhof Cemetery, Antwerpen Belgium Sapper Edwin Owran Calvert 1899148 159 Rly. Construction Coy. RE 17/6/40 La Bernerie-en-Retz Communal Cemetery, Loire-Atlantique France L/Corporal James Campbell 1899086 159 Rly. Construction Coy. RE 10/5/40-10/7/40 Pornic War Cemetery, Loire-Atlantique France L/Corporal Allan Capucci 2145271 155 Rly. Workshop Coy. RE 20/1/43 Tehran War Cemetery Iran Sapper James Carruthers 2110312 601 Rly. Construction Coy. RE 9/7/43 Madras War Cemetery, Chennai India Sapper James Chamberlain 1898441 7 Rly. Battalion RE 29/5/40 Liverpool (Allerton) Cemetery UK Sapper John Alfred Chambers 1891908 159 Rly. Construction Coy. RE 17/6/40 Escoublac-la-Baule War Cemetery, Loire-Atlantique France Sergeant Leslie Chester 1068489 607 Rly. Construction Coy. RE 24/8/44 Bayeux War Cemetery, Calvados France Sapper John Clark 1887069 157 Rly. Construction Coy. RE 11/5/45 Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Germany L/Corporal Cecil Douglas Clarke 1883605 199 Rly. Workshop Coy. RE 28/6/47 Ramleh War Cemetery Israel Sapper Samuel Walter Clarke 4973924 190 Rly. Operating Coy. RE 17/6/40 Rennes Eastern Communal Cemetery France Sergeant Michael Coffey 2717668 159 Rly. Construction Coy. RE 17/6/40 Dunkirk Memorial France CQS Frank Coleman 1865571 191 Rly. Operating Coy. RE 21/7/43 Calcutta (Bhowanipore) Cemetery India Sapper Albert Frederick Coles 1927431 154 Rly. Operating Coy. RE 17/6/40 Rennes Eastern Communal Cemetery France Sapper Roger Pearl Conroy 4041754 601 Rly. Construction Coy. RE 11/6/45 Madras War Cemetery, Chennai India RANK NAME NUMBER UNIT DATE CEMETERY COUNTRY Sapper John Convoy 2148396 160 Rly. Construction Coy. RE 9/7/44 Bolsena War Cemetery Italy L/Sergeant Joseph William Cotterill 2073585 604 Rly. Construction Coy. RE 9/7/45 Rangoon War Cemetery Myanmar Sapper John Coulter 2993222 924 Transportation Stores Coy. RE 16/11/46 Hamburg Cemetery Germany Sapper John Henry Coyle 1905075 161 Rly. Construction Coy. RE 2/7/44 Cassino War Cemetery Italy Sapper Harold Cracknell 1887420 159 Rly. Construction Coy. RE 17/6/40 Dunkirk Memorial France Sapper Vivian Miles Culling 19016036 199 Rly. Workshop Coy. RE 28/6/47 Ramleh War Cemetery Israel Sapper Herbert Cunliffe 1891840 159 Rly. Construction Coy. RE 17/6/40 Dunkirk Memorial France D Lieutenant James Bernard Dalton 260088 160 Rly.