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• 76 Company AMPC Maddingly,
Cambridge, July 1940
• Pioneers at Tobruk, May 1942
• Lieutenant Colonel H Johnson,
OBE, MC, TD,
Commander of 54 Group,inspecting Pioneers from Swaziland
• Pioneers wading ashore at
Sicily, July 1943
• On porterage in Italy, October
1943
• 30 Group, Aldershot, 1944
• Pioneers in Burma, WW2
• Malaya and Borneo
• Aden
"The picture on your website (above) is my father when he was posted to 518 coy in Aden it was during this tour while
commanding an RPC search team operating in the docks area he had a very large arms find over 1000 weapons. For this and other things in the Queens silver jubilee birthday list of honours he was awarded the British Empire Medal.
The cargo that he checked was marked water pumps they proved to be German pattern bolt action rifles, complete with bayonets, and 7.65 pistols..."
Jim Gregson
• Radfan
• Bahrain
• WOs and Sergeants 263 Company,
Port Said, Suez Campaign
• The Falkland Islands detachment
at Port Stanley
• Northern Ireland
• BAOR
• Gulf, 518 Company
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