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Sapper Summit from the Editor RAE CORPS NEWSLETTER ISSN 1325-7676 VICTORIAN ENGINEERS Number 83 October 2013 Austin Byrne—Editor Inside this issue Sapper Summit From the Editor ........................... 1 Sapper Summit Support………. ..... 2 From the Editor Rob Youl’s Column ..................... 2 Your attention is drawn to the key event that is coming up: An Amalgamation Parade will be held at Watsonia on: Recent Events .............................. 3 Coming Events .. .......................... 7 Sunday 1 December to celebrate the combination of From the Units 4 Combat Engineer Regiment and 4 CER ................................... 8 22 Construction Regiment. 22 Const Regt ....................... 9 It will start at 1400 hrs. All past members of the ARES Units are invited. Special points of interest See page 7 for the details. Note the cut-off date for attendance replies is 6 November. Association Reports................ 12 There will be a get-together afterwards in the Gymnasium. It has been too difficult to also arrange Reunion functions for this 1 Fd Sqn Book Release ............ 14 weekend, but Reunions for former members of the old Regiments Gallipoli Tour, 2015 ................ 14 are being arranged for the weekend 1—2 February 2014. Vales ........................................ 15 Col Brian J Florence’s book on the History of 1 Fd Sqn Gp, RAE in South Vietnam was launched on 18 August. The write-up is on page 14. Sales have gone well & there are limited copies remaining. The last issue of Sapper Summit will be in December and it will Printed by Kwik Kopy cover the Amalgamation Parade and Get-together — See you 6 Burwood Highway, Burwood there! SAPPER SUMMIT Sapper Summit is produced four times a year SAPPER SUMMIT SUPPORT By the RAE (Vic) Historical and Heritage Can you help with news items, suggestions, and letters Association Inc. (Reg No. A0046126U.) to the editor, etc. Send them to: Austin Byrne on Tel: (03) 9803 1061 The President is Lt Col Colin Bowater (Rtd) email to: [email protected] The Secretary is WO1 Jim Davis (Rtd) The Editor is Maj Austin Byrne (Rtd) We have one remaining issue for 2013, and it will con- centrate on reports and photos from 22 Engineer Regi- General Mail can be sent to: ment Amalgamation Parade on 1 December. The Editor, Sapper Summit, Other articles are required by Monday RAE (Vic) Historical and Heritage Association Inc, 2 December. C/- Oakleigh Barracks, Note that articles or opinions of authors or contribu- 1318 North Road, tors are their own and do not necessarily reflect the OAKLEIGH SOUTH, VIC, 3167. position of the Association. The format and clarity of the articles is the responsibility of the contributor. Subscriptions should be mailed to: The Subscriptions Secretary, RAE (Vic) Historical and Heritage Association Inc, Gallipoli Tour, 2015 C/- 16 / 85 Gordons Rd SOUTH MORANG, VIC, 3752 —- See page 14 —- Book NOW chief engineer. He contributed significantly to the Rob Youl’s Column: C.R.B.'s plan to meet the needs of the automobile era by constructing a system of 'low cost' motor roads. That Our account of the life of WO II Mick Mace MM task involved systematic experiments on the road- in the last issue of Sapper Summit was well received. building qualities of a wide variety of locally-occurring The Australian Dictionary of Biography has soils and rocks, and the development of efficient ma- kindly consented to our publishing this account of an- chinery and streamlined techniques for the construc- other decorated Victorian sapper, DV Darwin MM, a tion of bitumen surfaces on arterial motor routes. WW I soldier and later a distinguished civil engineer. On 1 March 1930 Darwin married a 24-year- We hope to combine these two interesting stories in a old music teacher Evelyn Hope Scott at the Presbyterian small booklet next year, incorporating family mementos Church, Malvern. Appointed chief engineer in 1940, he presented by the Darwin family to the Victorian RAE brought his versatility to the building requirements of History and Heritage Association. munitions facilities and airfields in Victoria, and to de- fence-related constructions in the Northern Territory Darwin, Donald Victor (1896–1972) (including the Stuart Highway). His appointment to the by Don Chambers three-member board of the C.R.B. in 1945 reflected respect for his engineering and administrative capaci- Donald Victor Darwin (1896-1972), civil engi- ties. neer, was born on 11 October 1896 at Redhill, South During the stressful period of postwar recon- Australia, son of Henry Darwin, a native-born bank struction, in 1949 Darwin became chairman of the manager, and his wife Jessie Louise Cleta, née Gmeiner. C.R.B., while continuing to lecture and examine in civil Educated at the Collegiate School of St Peter, Adelaide, engineering at his old university. He supervised a major and the University of Melbourne (B.C.E., 1920; M.C.E., upgrading of the State's roads and bridges system, and 1926), he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 3 helped the C.R.B. to plan for the advent of high-density, January 1916. He reached France in November as a sap- urban, motor traffic and heavy-duty freeways to link per in the 10th Field Company, Engineers. From 28 major population centres. March to 1 April 1918 at Buire, near Albert, he recon- Articulate and dedicated, with uncommon in- noitred front-line posts while under heavy fire and was tellectual ability and a prodigious memory, Darwin was awarded the Military Medal. He was discharged in Mel- a demanding administrator, capable of visionary and bourne on 25 May 1919. encouraging leadership. He was not, however, a master Joining the infant Country Roads Board of Vic- of the arts of political compromise or expediency, and toria, Darwin was appointed assistant-engineer in 1920 some blamed him for a decline in C.R.B. influence. One and bridge engineer in 1924. One of his major projects protégé described him as 'an academic person . quite was to design the Princes Highway's crossing of the shy but humorous . a hard person to get to know'. Barwon River. In 1929 he was promoted to assistant That painful shyness, a notoriously clammy and limp 2 handshake, and a devout Anglican's moral scrupulous- Defence Force of Signals is a true reflection of the im- ness contributed to Darwin's difficulties in relating to portance that the corps of signals places in this histori- State and municipal politicians. cal event. It could also be a sign of their secret pining Having retired in 1962, he assisted the Austra- to return to the RAE!!! lian Road Research Board. That year he won the Kernot Whilst I am on the topic it would also be re- medal. He was appointed I.S.O. in 1963 and awarded miss of me to not express my thanks for the use of the the (Sir) Peter Nicol Russell medal in 1966 by the Insti- Royal Australian Signals Corps Officers’ mess for this tution of Engineers, Australia, an organization he had dinner tonight. served as president in 1957. Survived by his wife and As I touched on earlier this evening I want to daughter, Darwin died on 8 March 1972 at Malvern and take the opportunity to formally recognise that this will was cremated. His estate was sworn for probate at be the final year that our Reserve Combat Engineer and $123,692. Construction Regiments will exist as separate Regi- ments, not just here within the 4th Brigade but across Reference: the Reserve. As most of you know, under Plan BEER- Don Chambers, 'Darwin, Donald Victor (1896–1972)', Austra- SHEBA the Combat Engineer and Construction Regi- lian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, in John Ritchie (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume ments within the Reserve will merge to form Engineer 13, Melbourne University Press, 1993, pp. 572-573. Regiments. Each Engineer Regiment will comprise of two Combat Engineer Squadrons and a single Construc- The online reference is: Don Chambers, 'Darwin, Donald Vic- tion Squadron. st tor (1896–1972)', Australian Dictionary of Biography Online, The mergers will take effect on the 1 of Janu- th 2006, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/darwin-donald-victor ary 2014 and here within 4 Bde the 4 Combat Engi- neer Regiment and the 22nd Construction Regiment will -9903/text17533, accessed 2 April 2013. nd merge to form the 22 Engineer Regiment. Our sister Select Bibliography Combat Engineer and Construction Regiments within 5 th th Sun News-Pictorial (Melbourne), 5 Jan 1945, 2 Sept 1950, 11 and 8 Brigade will merge to form the 5 and 8 Engi- Sept 1953 neer Regiments respectively, and within 11 Brigade in th Argus (Melbourne), 22 Mar 1949 Queensland the 11 Engineer Regiment will be raised. For the 3rd Field Squadron in 9 Bde and the 13th Field Herald (Melbourne), 10 July 1950, 1 Feb 1956 Squadron in 13 Bde they will transfer under command Age (Melbourne), 17 Apr 1957, 24 July 1962, 10 Mar of their respective Brigade’s Infantry Battalions how- 1972 ever technical control will remain with the Force Engi- Sydney Morning Herald, 8 June 1963, 25 Nov 1966 neer Branch. D. Chambers, From Bullock Tracks to Bitumen This new unit structure and revised training (manuscript, State Library of Victoria) cycle has been designed to position the Engineer Regi- Country Roads Board (Victoria) records (Public Record ments to make a more targeted contribution to the Office Victoria) Regular Force. In simplistic terms, into the future the nd 22 Engineer Regiment will forge closer ties with 3 Fd … Rob youl Squadron in South Australia to generate capability that will directly support the 1st Combat Engineer Regiment in Darwin. This of course is simply the headline informa- Recent Events tion.
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