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INSTITUTION of ROYAL ENGINEERS Established 1875 Incorporated by Royal Charter 1923 INSTITUTION OF ROYAL ENGINEERS Established 1875 Incorporated by Royal Charter 1923 Patron: HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN Chief Royal Engineer: Lieutenant General Sir Scott Grant KCB COUNCIL PRESIDENT Lieutenant General A D Pigott CBE ... 1997 VICE PRESIDENTS Major General K J Drewienkiewicz CB CMG ... 1997 Colonel C W Pagan MBE TD DL ... 1997 Brigadier A E Whitley CBE ADC ... 1999 MEMBERS Ex Officio Comd Engr LAND Brigadier M F N Mans Comdt RSME Brigadier C M Sexton Comd Geo Engr Gp Colonel R N Rigby Regt Col Colonel M H H Brooke OBE Col G4 MES LAND Colonel A R M Wilson Col RE MCM Div Colonel A A Peebles CRE 3 (UK) Division Colonel I M Caws OBE Elected Members Colonel G W A Napier 1998 Lieutenant Colonel C J Rose 1998 Lieutenant Colonel M W Whitchurch MBE 2000 Lieutenant Colonel M A Wood BEM 2000 Major R H Brown TD 2000 Major I A McDougall 2000 Coopted (non-voting) Corps RSM Warrant Officer Class 1 M S Glover Secretary Lieutenant Colonel D N Hamilton MBE 2000 Treasurer Lieutenant Colonel R F Wilsher 1996 Corresponding Members Colonel W A Bailey MBE, BLO Fort Leonard Wood, USA Lieutenant Colonel L W Chapman, BLO Pionierschule, Munich Lieutenant Colonel P E Crook, BLO Engineer School, Angers Major W R S Lang, Exchange Appointment, Australian SME Captain R D Humphries, Exchange Appointment, Canadian SME BUDGET, INVESTMENTS, MEMBERSHIP, SCHOLARSHIP, MEMORIAL AND PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE Chairman Colonel C W Pagan MBE TD DL Vice-Chairman Colonel M H H Brooke OBE Members Colonel A R M Wilson Colonel I M Caws OBE Colonel A A Peebles Colonel I M Tait Lieutenant Colonel C J Rose Major I A McDougall Warrant Officer Class 1 M S Glover Secretary Lieutenant Colonel D N Hamilton MBE Treasurer Lieutenant Colonel R F Wilsher INSTITUTION OF ROYAL ENGINEERS’ STAFF Secretary: Lieutenant Colonel D N Hamilton MBE Tel: ATN (9) 4661 (BT 01634 82) 2298 Editor, RE Journal: Colonel M R Cooper Tel: ATN (9) 4661 (BT 01634 842669/82) 2299 Assistant Sec, Publications: Mrs J D Scanlan Tel: ATN (9) 4661 (BT 01634 842669/82) 2299 Administrative Officers: Mrs B Brand/Mrs J Ellender Tel: ATN (9) 4661 (BT 01634 82) 2298 Fax: ATN (9) 4661 (BT 01634 82) 2397 Email: see inside back cover All correspondence in connection with editorial matters should be addressed to the Secretary, Publications, Institution of Royal Engineers, Ravelin Building, Brompton Barracks, Chatham, Kent ME4 4UG. The Institution of Royal Engineers is Registered as a Charity Number 249882. Editorial THE lead article in this issue of the Journal is the Journal proposing a new mess kit for officers “Engineer in Chief’s Annual Report to the and the letters which have been published in Corps”. The report is wide-ranging and gives an response to it. Launching Nose, an erudite and excellent snapshot of the activities of the Corps knowledgeable person on matters of dress, adds in 2000. In order that it can be read more widely to the debate with an informative and amusing within the Corps family, a copy of the report is article, “In No Disorder – Right Dress!” to be published as an insert in the January 2001 I regret that I haven’t space to comment on the edition of The Sapper magazine. other articles in this Journal but I would like to The Corps and Army are presently faced with say that the Publications Committee continues unprecedented changes in peacetime and they to be impressed with the range and high stan- will not be to the liking of everyone. Private dard of articles submitted for publication. I public partnership, or PPP as it is best known, would like to express my thanks and gratitude will have a far-reaching effect on the RSME to all those who have given us the benefit of when it is implemented in the next year or so. their wisdom and experience and without whose It’s all a far cry from the Army most readers will contributions the Journal would be that much remember but with defence policy significantly the poorer. realigned following the strategic defence review, After six years as Secretary of the Institution, I radical changes are demanded in the way we have now handed over to my successor, recruit, train and operate in the future. The Lieutenant Colonel David Hamilton. He also Corps is well placed to meet these challenges takes on the job of Corps Secretary. I will how- but rationalization of some functions, as has ever continue for a little longer as editor of the already happened with command and staff train- Journal and The Sapper magazine and will also ing and also to Military Survey (now called take on the job of coordinating book reviews Defence Geographic and Intelligence Imagery and memoirs from Colonel Gerald Napier. Agency), is likely to continue. Colonel Napier will continue to be the project Recent operations in the Balkans have given manager for the next volume of Corps history impetus to the development of infrastructure doc- and has set himself the task of compiling a short trine and policy within the Corps and the Army. illustrated history of the Corps, both of which The importance of making sure that such doctrine are planned to be published in the next three to is widely known is highlighted in a letter in the four years. correspondence section commenting on the article A strategic review of the Museum has now “Operational Expeditionary Infrastructure Works, been completed which is linked to a 50-year The Air Support Way” published in the August lease negotiated with Defence Estates. The 2000 Journal. The debate is to be welcomed. We Museum continues to be the focus of the Corps’ may not all agree with certain procedures, fund-raising effort with added impetus being whether financial or technical, imposed upon us given to it in order to safeguard many of the but it is incumbent upon all of us to work together heavy equipments which form part of the collec- to achieve the best way forward. A “them and us” tion and now need to be moved from storage in attitude between designers and constructors per- the RSME estate to a display area in the sisted for far too long in the construction industry Museum, and also to meet the expected increase and has now, to a great extent, been overcome in running costs as the MOD’s contribution is with the introduction of the “design and build” progressively reduced. An article about the concept now becoming widely adopted in major Museum, to bring it to the attention of more commercial projects. The parallel with current members of the Corps, will appear in the March doctrine in the Corps is not quite so clear cut but issue of The Sapper magazine. the principle remains important. The President and Council of the Institution Many readers will no doubt have read with join me in wishing all members of the Institution some interest the article in the December 1999 a happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year. 170 ISSN 0035-8878 THE ROYAL ENGINEERS JOURNAL © Published in April, August and December by the Institution of Royal Engineers, Chatham, Kent, ME4 4UG. Printed by Stephens & George Magazines, Goat Mill Road, Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, Mid Glamorgan, CF48 3TD. Volume 114 December 2000 No 3 Contents 1EDITORIAL.................................................................................................................................170 2ENGINEER IN CHIEF’S ANNUAL REPORT TO THE CORPS..............................................................172 3INFRASTRUCTURE OPERATIONS IN SIERRA LEONE Major M P Walton-Knight ...................................................................................................184 4JOURNAL AWARDS FOR AUGUST ................................................................................................191 5IN NO DISORDER – RIGHT DRESS! A Think Piece by Launching Nose ......................................................................................192 6INSTITUTION EMAIL CHANGE OF ADDRESS.................................................................................201 7MYTHS OF AND INSIGHTS INTO TEMPORARY FIELD ACCOMMODATION Lieutenant Colonel C M Cockerill ......................................................................................202 8A COLLABORATION OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND BRITISH MILITARY TRAINING IN SABAH Captain M H W Workman ...................................................................................................208 9FOLLOW THE SAPPER Lieutenant Colonel M C McCabe ........................................................................................215 10 INFRASTRUCTURE FOR FUEL Major S P W Boyd ...............................................................................................................218 11 THE INSPECTORATE OF ENGINEER RESOURCES, PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE Lieutenant Colonel N A Jordan............................................................................................224 12 RUST AND ROTTEN EGGS Lieutenant Colonel J F Pelton and Captain P L Dickerson..................................................229 13 AN ASSESSMENT OF BLAME FOR BRITISH CASUALTIES IN WORLD WAR ONE Lieutenant Colonel P R Burleigh ........................................................................................234 14 MEMOIRS Major General J M L Gavin CB CBE ..................................................................................238 Colonel A W Kiggell OBE...................................................................................................240 Brigadier J T S Tutton CBE .................................................................................................242 Major (V) T B Gillett TD .....................................................................................................244
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