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The Royal Engineers Journal The Royal Engineers Journal VOL. LVIII SEPTEMBER, 1944 5Ii *A CONTENTS The S.M.E. Comes to Chatham . Lt.-Col. F. S.,Garwood 149 Vive L'Entente Cordiale . Col. H. B.. Harrison lss The Sudan Defence Force Goes to War . Brig. iA. J. Knoit 157 Still More War Books . J.E.E. 171 Musings on Roads (Part I) . Col. E. SGt. G. Kirke 976 A Private View .A.R.A.I. 181 A Minor Bridging Episode . Brig. H. de L. Panet 182 Post-War Army Housing Buccaneer 109 R.E. Work for the Mechanization of the Army (Part II) . 195 Memoirs. Books. Magazines. Correspondence. 199 1 1 II Published Quarterly by THE INSTITUTION OF ROYAL ENGINEERS CHATHAM, KENT Telephone: Chatham 2669 AGENTS and PRINTERS: W. & J. MACKAY & CO., LTD., CHATHAM. LONDON AGENTS: HUGH REES, LTD., 47, PALL MALL, S.W.I. INSTITUTION OF RE OFFICE COPY DO NOT REMOVE II _ NOFRANGO PROCESS (Patented) Is very briefly a cement sand rendering on a fabric. It is useful for the cheap and quick construction of boundary walls, swimming pools, drinking troughs, sheds, permanent camouflage, and where other materials are not easily available can be used for-general purpose building. NOFRANGO bungalows or houses are com- pletely waterproof, do not absorb moisture, are clean, sanitary, comfortable. For instructions and the fabric, apply: THE CEMENTATION CO. LTD. BENTLEY WORKS DONCASTER Telephone: Doncaster Telegrams: Cementation 54177-8-9. Doncaster. ADVERTISEMENTS i 1 1BH 0 2 - 31 ;14 m ·00 -5U, 5 I L. L,~' b > THE VICTAULIC COMPANY LTD. Brook House, 113 Park Lane, London, W.1. THE ROYAL ENGINEERS JOURNAL VOL. LVIII CONTENTS SEPTEMBER, 1944 PAGE I. THE S.M.E. COMES TO CHATHAMI. (With Photograph.) By Lieut.-Colonel F. S. Gawnood, R.E.. .. .. .. .. .. .. 149 2. VIVE L'ENTENTE CORDIALE. By Colonel H. B. Harrison .. 155 3. THE SUDAN DEFENCE FORCE GOES TO WAR. (With Mlap.) By Brigadier A. J. Knott, O.B.E. .57 4. STILL MORE WAR BOOKS. By J.E.E. .. .. .. 171 5. MUSINGS ON ROADS. (Part I) By Colonel E. St. G. Kirke, D.S.O... 176 6. A PRIVATE VIEW. By A.R.A.I. ......... .. .. .SI 7. A MINOR BRIDGING EPISODE. (With Map & Sketches.) By Brigadier H. de L. Panet, C.B.E.... ..... .. 182 8. POST-WAR ARMY HOUSING (a discussion with Charles). By Buccaneer .. 190 q. R.E. WORK FOR THE MIECHANIZATION OF TIHE ARMY. Part II. (An Extract from unpublished Corps History.) Compiled from the Work of various Authors .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 195 o1. MEMOIRS . .. .. .. .. .. .. 199 Major-General A. C. Joly de Lotbiniere, C.B., C.S.I., C.I.E. (With Photograph.) .. .A.E.P. Brigadier T. D. Broughton. (With Photograph.) . W.H.E. Colonel H. W. Weekes, D.S.O., O.B.E. H.L.P. Colonel E. A. H. James .. F.S.G.P. r. BOOK REVIEWS.. .... .. .. .. .. .. 205 The German Army . .. .. J.E.E. Malta Magnificent . .. .. .T.F. Civil Aviation . .. .. .C.F.A-C. No Great Shakes .. .. .. .. T.F. Higher Surveying . .. .. H.S.L.W. British Railway Track .. .. .. E.St.G.K. 12. MIAGAZINE REVIEWS ... .. .. .. .. .. 211 GeographicalJournal .... E.M.J. Empire Survey Revie .......... E.M.J. The Engineering Journal .. H.M.F. Journal of the United Service Institution of India . F.C.M. The Indian Forester .. .. F.C.M. The Institution of Civil Engineers of Ireland .. R.P.P-W. An Cosant6ir ... ..... D.ff-M. The llilitary Engineer .. .. .. A.S.H. Infantry Journal .. A.S.H. Retue Alilitaire Suisse .. .. W.H.K. Journal of the Buenos Aires Association of the Institution of Civil Engineers .. .. .. .. R.E.M.R. 13. CORRESPONDENCE . .. .......... 222 Equator and Ecliptic. Lt.-Col. A. G. Shortt and Lt.-Col. T. C. Skinner. The attention of all Contributors is drawn to K.R. Para. 547(c.) Application for permission to publish will be made by the Editor. THE COUNCIL OF THE INSTITUTION OF ROYAL ENGINEERS (Incorporated by Royal Charter, 27th February, 1923) Patron-HIS MAJESTY THE KING President Maj.-Gen. G. H. Addison, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., M.A., M.I.Mech.E., Col. Commandant, R.E ....... ... ... ... ... .. 1941 Vice-Presidents Maj.-Gen. A. G. B. Buchanan, M.lnst.C.E...... .. ... .... ... 1942 Maj.-Gen. C. J. S. King, C.B., C.B.E., M.lnst.C.E... ....1943 ..... Elected Lleut.-Gen. Sir Lionel V. Bond, K.B.E., C P-S.C. t . Col. Commandant. R.E ...... ... 1942 Col. H. W. Tomlinson ......... 1942 Col. E. E. B: Mackintosh, D.S.O. ... 1942 .. o Lleut.-Col. F. L. Stroud ......... 1942 o... Col. B. C. T. Freeland ...... 1943 Brig. G. E. H. Sim, D.S.O., M.C., p.s.c.t . .. 1943 Maj.-Gen. J. C. F. Holland, D.F.C., p.s.c.t o... 1943 . .. Col. J. R. T. Aldous, M.C., p.s.c.t . .o. 1943 . .. Lieut.-Col. A. M. Anstruther ... ... 1944 o.... .. Brig. H. H. Bateman, D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C. 1944 o.... .. Col. J. V. Denning, M.C. ... ... 1944 o... Col. J. L. Lishman, D.S.O., T.D. ... 1944 Brig. B. K. Young, C.B.E., M.C. ... 1944 Lieut.-Col. G. E. H.'Philbrick ...... 1944 Ex-Officio Col. W. D. Robertson, D.S.O. Brig. H. T. S. King, O.B.E. Maj.-Gen. D. J. McMullen, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., M.I.Mech.E. Brig. F. C. W. Fosbery, p.s.c.t Brig. H. E. Hopthrow, O.B.E., M.I.Mech.E. Major D. C. Cameron Lieut.-Col. G. T. H. Capron Corresponding Members Maj.-Gen. T. R.Williams, C.M.G., D.S.O., Australian Staff Corps ... 28th January, 1930 Lieut.-Col. W. H. Blake, M.C., Royal Canadian Engineers .... ... 15th June, 1943 Col. G. H. Cotton, O.B.E., M.I.Mech.E., S.A. Staff Corps ... ... 7th June, 1939 Col. G. H. Clifton, M.C., p.s.c.t., N. Zealand Staff Corps .... 27th July, 1937 Permanent Honorary Secretary l Col. F. E. G. Skey ..... ...... .. ..... .. st August, 1943 Secretary and Editor R.E. Journal: Col. H. M. Fordham, O.B.E., M.C., A.M.I.E.E. ... ... .. st August, 1943 Bankers Lloyds Bank, Ltd., Cox's and King's Branch, 6, Pall Mall, S.W.I. 2,350 x.9.44 THE S.M.E. COMES TO CHATHAM BY LIEUT.-COLONEL F. S. GARWOOD, R.E. IN Major-General W. Porter's History of the Royal Engineers no mention is made of the opening of the S.M.E. at Chatham. The story of its founda- tion has been told by the late Lieut.-Colonel P. H. Kealy in an article on Sir Charles Pasley, in The R.E. Journal of December, 1930; but it will bear telling again in the light of new information, which has recently become available, showing the intimate relations then existing between the R.A. and R.E. THE DEBT OF THE R.E. TO THE ROYAL STAFF CORPS It is an historical fact that the Duke of York, for a period of over twenty years, split the Engineers into two bodies, whose duties frequently over- lapped. There were Royal Engineers under the Master-General of the Ordnance and rival engineers under the orders of the Q.M.G. belonging to the Royal Staff Corps, whose headquarters were at Hythe, and who were acknow- ledged experts in the science of military bridging. Like the R.E., the R.S.C. had its famous names, but it had no historian, and the only record of these great men is in the Dictionary of NationalBiography. The officer responsible for the training of the officers of the Staff, was an artilleryman, Sir Howard Douglas. He wrote a text book on Military Bridging, which it is said gave Telford the idea of making a suspension bridge across the Menai Straits. The suspension principle had been practically tested by the late Lieut.-Colonel Sturgeon, R.S.C., at Alcantara, on the River Tagus. The officers of the R.S.C. were also specialists in Survey; and Sir Charles Arden-Close once possessed a Manual of Field Sketching, by Major Basil Jackson, R.S.C. In these two important branches of the military engineers' art the R.S.C. were the pioneers and not the R.E. During the whole Napoleonic war the Corps of Royal Engineers consisted only of officers and possessed no rank and file; and although the R.S.C. was moribund, its companies were complete units, with their own officers and well trained men, and they can claim the honour of being the first Field Companies of Engineers who accompanied a British Army in the field. THE CRY FOR SAPPERS AND MINERS By the time that this great war was drawing to its close, the junior officers of the R.E. consisted of young men, with very little academic training, who had been schooled by many years of hard fighting in all parts of Europe. They had had to conduct sieges without trained men to carry out their instructions. They built pontoon bridges, which might look well enough on a canal, but which promptly foundered on the turbulent rivers of Spain. The Royal Military Artificers, who served under their orders, were depart- mental non-combatants, who might be excellent tradesmen but were quite unfit to cope with problems such as these. From Spain came the bitter cry: " Send us out men trained to be sappers and miners." But this cry 149 General Sir Charles Pasley KCB 150 THE ROYAL ENGINEERS JOURNAL rose to a scream in a private letter which Pasley wrote to a friend from Flushing in July, 1809.
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