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The Royal Engineers Journal. 01 --- --`-` -------1-- ---- " --- / The ( Royal Engineers Journal. 01 The Medals and Decorations of the late Colonel Sir Edward Talbot Thackeray . 185 The Uniforms of the Corps of Royal Engineers up to 1914. The late Lieut.-Colonel P. H. Kealy 186 Colonial Surveys and the Corps. Brigadier H. St. J. L. Winterbotham 209 Temporary Roads Department-IV. Roadsurvey" 217 Khedive Ismail's Dispatches to Major-General Charles Gordon. Lieut.-Colonel F. W. Moffitt 236 The Lochaber Water Power Undertakings, Inverness-shire, Scotland, Lieutenant F. H. Maclennan 240 Engineer Reonnaissance . Captain B. E. Wood 260 A Swimming Pool at Tientin, China . Major G. MacLeod Ross 267 lishmi, 1912-1. Lieut.-Colonel W. E. Britten 275 Changing Ground Levels in Bengal . J. de Graaff Hunter 286 A Desert Reconnaissance Survey . Major H. de L. Panet 291 A Demolition Raid . "Anonmous" 298 Report on the Demolition of the L.M.S. Railway Postern Arches, at Shottle . 308 1- - - Memoirs. 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