Tyne Electrical Engineers
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The Tyne Electrical Engineers is a Volunteer unit of the British Army that has existed under various titles since 1860. It has been the parent unit for a large number of units fulfilling specialist co
Caricature of Sir Charles Palmer by Ape published in Vanity Fair in 1884
1st Newcastle Engineers
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The 1st Newcastle Engineer Volunteers, later Northumbrian Divisional Engineers, was a Royal Engineer unit of Britain's Volunteer Force and Territorial Army founded in 1860. Its companies saw action in
Tyne Electrical Engineers
…Grinkle Park, retired from the unit in 1888 with the rank of Colonel. The same year, the 1st Newcastle & Durham was split into three separate units: the 1st Newcastle RE (Volunteers), the 1st Durham RE (V), and the Tyne Division RE (V), Submarine Miners, with Palmer as Honorary Commandant of both the latter units. The Tyne Submarine…
RE Cap badge (King George V cipher)
Formation sign of 50th (Northumbrian) Division in World War I.