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1st Newcastle Engineers, the Glossary

The 1st Newcastle Engineer Volunteers, later Northumbrian Divisional Engineers, was a Royal Engineer (RE) unit of Britain's Volunteer Force and Territorial Army founded in 1860.^[1]

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1860 establishments in the United Kingdom
Engineer Volunteer Corps of the British Army
Military units and formations in Newcastle upon Tyne
Military units and formations in Northumberland

Action of Khan Baghdadi

The action of Khan Baghdadi was an engagement during the Mesopotamian campaign in World War I.

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Aisne (river)

The Aisne is a river in northeastern France.

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Albert Canal

The Albert Canal is a canal located in northeastern Belgium, which was named for King Albert I of Belgium.

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Allied invasion of Italy

The Allied invasion of Italy was the Allied amphibious landing on mainland Italy that took place from 3 September 1943, during the Italian campaign of World War II.

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The Allied invasion of Sicily, also known as the Battle of Sicily and Operation Husky, was a major campaign of World War II in which the Allied forces invaded the island of Sicily in July 1943 and took it from the Axis powers (Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany).

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Amiens

Amiens (English: or;; Anmien, Anmiens or Anmyin) is a city and commune in northern France, located north of Paris and south-west of Lille.

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Armistice of 11 November 1918

The Armistice of 11 November 1918 was the armistice signed at Le Francport near Compiègne that ended fighting on land, at sea, and in the air in World War I between the Entente and their last remaining opponent, Germany.

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Armistice of Salonica

The Armistice of Salonica (also known as the Armistice of Thessalonica) was the armistice signed at 10:50 p.m. on 29 September 1918 between Bulgaria and the Allied Powers at the General Headquarters of the Allied Army of the Orient in Thessaloniki.

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Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers

Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers (AVRE), also known as Assault Vehicle Royal Engineers, is the title given to a series of armoured military engineering vehicles operated by the Royal Engineers (RE) for the purpose of protecting engineers during frontline battlefield operations.

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Army 2020 Refine

Army 2020 Refine was the name given to the restructuring of the British Army in the mid-to-late 2010s, in light of the Strategic Defence and Security Review 2015.

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Army Reserve (United Kingdom)

The Army Reserve is the active-duty volunteer reserve force of the British Army.

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Attacks on the Butte de Warlencourt

The Attacks on the Butte de Warlencourt (7 October – 16 November 1916) describe a tactical incident during the Battle of the Somme.

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Barrage (artillery)

In military usage, a barrage is massed sustained artillery fire (shelling) aimed at a series of points along a line.

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Battle of Armentières

The Battle of Armentières (also Battle of Lille) was fought by German and Franco-British forces in northern France in October 1914, during reciprocal attempts by the armies to envelop the northern flank of their opponent, which has been called the Race to the Sea.

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Battle of Arras (1917)

The Battle of Arras (also known as the Second Battle of Arras) was a British offensive on the Western Front during the First World War.

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Battle of Arras (1940)

The Battle of Arras took place on 21 May 1940, during the Battle of France in the Second World War.

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Battle of Cambrai (1918)

The Battle of Cambrai, 1918 (also known as the Second Battle of Cambrai) was fought between troops of the British First, Third and Fourth Armies and German Empire forces during the Hundred Days Offensive of the First World War.

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Battle of Flers–Courcelette

The Battle of Flers–Courcelette (15 to 22 September 1916) was fought during the Battle of the Somme in France, by the French Sixth Army and the British Fourth Army and Reserve Army, against the German 1st Army, during the First World War.

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Battle of Gazala

The Battle of Gazala (near the village of Gazala) was fought during the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War, west of the port of Tobruk in Libya, from 26 May to 21 June 1942.

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Battle of Le Transloy

The Battle of Le Transloy was the last big attack by the Fourth Army of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in the 1916 Battle of the Somme in France, during the First World War.

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Battle of Morval

The Battle of Morval, 25–28 September 1916, was an attack during the Battle of the Somme by the British Fourth Army on the villages of Morval, Gueudecourt and Lesbœufs held by the German 1st Army, which had been the final objectives of the Battle of Flers–Courcelette (15–22 September).

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Battle of Passchendaele

The Third Battle of Ypres (Dritte Flandernschlacht; Troisième Bataille des Flandres; Derde Slag om Ieper), also known as the Battle of Passchendaele, was a campaign of the First World War, fought by the Allies against the German Empire.

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Battle of St Quentin Canal

The Battle of St Quentin Canal was a pivotal battle of World War I that began on 29 September 1918 and involved British, Australian and American forces operating as part of the British Fourth Army under the overall command of General Sir Henry Rawlinson.

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Battle of the Lys (1918)

The Battle of the Lys, also known as the Fourth Battle of Ypres, was fought from 7 to 29 April 1918 and was part of the German spring offensive in Flanders during the First World War.

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Battle of the Mareth Line

The Battle of the Mareth Line or the Battle of Mareth was an attack in the Second World War by the British Eighth Army (led by General Bernard Montgomery) in Tunisia, against the Mareth Line held by the Italo-German 1st Army (led by General Giovanni Messe).

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Battle of the Sambre (1918)

The Second Battle of the Sambre (4 November 1918) (which included the Second Battle of Guise (2ème Bataille de Guise) and the Battle of Thiérache (Bataille de Thiérache) was part of the final European Allied offensives of World War I.

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Battle of the Selle

The Battle of the Selle (17–25 October 1918) took place between Allied forces and the German Army, fought during the Hundred Days Offensive of World War I.

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Battle of the Somme

The Battle of the Somme (Bataille de la Somme; Schlacht an der Somme), also known as the Somme offensive, was a major battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British Empire and the French Third Republic against the German Empire.

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Battle of Villers-Bocage

The Battle of Villers-Bocage took place during the Second World War on 13 June 1944, one week after the Normandy landings, which had begun the Western Allies' conquest of German-occupied France.

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Battle of Wadi Akarit

The Battle of Wadi Akarit (Operation Scipio) was an Allied attack from 6 to 7 April 1943, to dislodge Axis forces from positions along the Wadi Akarit in Tunisia during the Tunisia Campaign of the Second World War.

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Battles of Ramadi (1917)

The two Battles of Ramadi were fought between the forces of the British and Ottoman Empires in July and September 1917 during World War I. The two sides contested the town of Ramadi in central Iraq, about 100 km (62 miles) west of Baghdad on the south bank of the Euphrates River, where an important Ottoman garrison was quartered.

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Bayeux

Bayeux is a commune in the Calvados department in Normandy in northwestern France.

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Bazentin

Bazentin is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

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Bocage

Bocage is a terrain of mixed woodland and pasture characteristic of parts of northern France, southern England, Ireland, the Netherlands, northern Spain and northern Germany, in regions where pastoral farming is the dominant land use.

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British Expeditionary Force (World War II)

The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) was the contingent of the British Army sent to France in 1939 after Britain and France declared war on Nazi Germany on 3 September, beginning the Second World War.

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Brussels

Brussels (Bruxelles,; Brussel), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium.

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Cadre (military)

A cadre is the complement of commissioned officers and non-commissioned officers of a military unit responsible for training the rest of the unit.

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Canal de la Somme

The Canal de la Somme is a canal in northern France.

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Canal du Nord

The Canal du Nord (literally Canal of the North) is a long canal in northern France.

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Capture of Hill 60 (Western Front)

The Capture of Hill 60 took place near Hill 60 south of Ypres on the Western Front, during the First World War.

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Central Force

GHQ Central Force was a home command of the British Army during the First World War.

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Charles Moore Watson

Sir Charles Moore Watson (1844–1916) was a British Army officer, engineer and administrator.

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Coir

Coir, also called coconut fibre, is a natural fibre extracted from the outer husk of coconut, and used in products such as floor mats, doormats, brushes, and mattresses.

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County Durham

County Durham, officially simply Durham (/ˈdʌrəm/), is a ceremonial county in North East England.

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Dender

The Dender (Dutch) or Dendre (French) is a long river in Belgium, the right tributary of the river Scheldt.

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Devonshire Regiment

The Devonshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that served under various titles and served in many wars and conflicts from 1685 to 1958, such as the Second Boer War, the First World War and the Second World War.

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Dorset Regiment

The Dorset Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 to 1958, being the county regiment of Dorset.

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Dunkirk evacuation

The Dunkirk evacuation, codenamed Operation Dynamo and also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, or just Dunkirk, was the evacuation of more than 338,000 Allied soldiers during the Second World War from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, in the north of France, between 26 May and 4 June 1940.

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Eighth Army (United Kingdom)

The Eighth Army was a field army of the British Army during the Second World War.

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El Alamein

El Alamein (lit) is a town in the northern Matrouh Governorate of Egypt.

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Elswick, Newcastle upon Tyne

Elswick is a district and electoral ward of the city and metropolitan borough of Newcastle upon Tyne, in the county of Tyne and Wear, England, 1.9 miles west of the city centre, bordering the River Tyne.

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Enfilade and defilade

Enfilade and defilade are concepts in military tactics used to describe a military formation's exposure to enemy fire.

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Escalade

Escalade is the act of scaling defensive walls or ramparts with the aid of ladders.

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Estaires

Estaires (Stegers) is a commune in the Nord department of the Hauts-de-France region in northern France.

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Euphrates

The Euphrates (see below) is the longest and one of the most historically important rivers of Western Asia.

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Falaise pocket

The Falaise pocket or Battle of the Falaise pocket (12–21 August 1944) was the decisive engagement of the Battle of Normandy in the Second World War.

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Fascine

A fascine (pronounced) is a rough bundle of brushwood or other material used for strengthening an earthen structure, or making a path across uneven or wet terrain.

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Fifth Army (United Kingdom)

The Fifth Army was a field army of the British Army during World War I that formed part of the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front between 1916 and 1918.

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First Battle of the Aisne

The First Battle of the Aisne (1re Bataille de l'Aisne) was the Allied follow-up offensive against the right wing of the German First Army (led by Alexander von Kluck) and the Second Army (led by Karl von Bülow) as they retreated after the First Battle of the Marne earlier in September 1914.

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First Battle of the Marne

The First Battle of the Marne or known in France as the Miracle on the Marne (French: miracle de la Marne) was a battle of the First World War fought from 5 to 12 September 1914.

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Folkestone

Folkestone is a port town on the English Channel, in Kent, south-east England.

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Geel

Geel is a city and municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp, which acquired city status in the 1980s.

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German spring offensive

The German spring offensive, also known as Kaiserschlacht ("Kaiser's Battle") or the Ludendorff offensive, was a series of German attacks along the Western Front during the First World War, beginning on 21 March 1918.

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Gold Beach

Gold, commonly known as Gold Beach, was the code name for one of the five areas of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France in the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944, during the Second World War.

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Great Retreat

The Great Retreat, also known as the retreat from Mons, was the long withdrawal to the River Marne in August and September 1914 by the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and the French Fifth Army.

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Guards Armoured Division

The Guards Armoured Division was an armoured division of the British Army during the Second World War.

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Haldane Reforms

The Haldane Reforms were a series of far-ranging reforms of the British Army made from 1906 to 1912, and named after the Secretary of State for War, Richard Burdon Haldane.

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Hundred Days Offensive

The Hundred Days Offensive (8 August to 11 November 1918) was a series of massive Allied offensives that ended the First World War.

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I. S. O. Playfair

Major General Ian Stanley Ord Playfair, (10 April 1894 – 21 March 1972) was a British Army officer.

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Ieperlee

The Ieperlee (or Ypres-Ijzer Canal) is a canalized river that rises in Heuvelland in the Belgian province of West Flanders and flows via the city of Ypres (Ieper) into the Yser at Fort Knokke.

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Jarrow

Jarrow is a town in South Tyneside in the county of Tyne and Wear, England.

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Land mine

A land mine, or landmine, is an explosive weapon concealed under or camouflaged on the ground, and designed to destroy or disable enemy targets, ranging from combatants to vehicles and tanks, as they pass over or near it.

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Landing Vehicle Tracked

The Amphibious Vehicle, Tracked (LVT) is an amphibious warfare vehicle and amphibious landing craft, introduced by the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps.

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Lawe

The Lawe is a river of northern France, right tributary of the Lys.

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Le Cateau-Cambrésis

Le Cateau-Cambrésis (before 1977: Le Cateau) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.

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Lionel Ellis

Lionel Frederic Ellis CVO CBE DSO MC (13 May 1885 – 19 October 1970) was a British Army officer and military historian, author of three volumes of the official History of the Second World War.

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London Irish Rifles

The London Irish Rifles (LIR) was a reserve infantry regiment and then company of the British Army.

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London Scottish (regiment)

The London Scottish was a reserve infantry regiment then a company of the British Army.

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Lys (river)

The Lys or Leie is a river in France and Belgium, and a left-bank tributary of the Scheldt.

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Macedonian front

The Macedonian front, also known as the Salonica front (after Thessaloniki), was a military theatre of World War I formed as a result of an attempt by the Allied Powers to aid Serbia, in the autumn of 1915, against the combined attack of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria.

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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district.

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Mesopotamian campaign

The Mesopotamian campaign or Mesopotamian front (Turkish) was a campaign in the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I fought between the Allies represented by the British Empire, troops from Britain, Australia and the vast majority from British Raj, against the Central Powers, mostly the Ottoman Empire.

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Military Service Act 1916

The Military Service Act 1916 was an Act passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom during the First World War to impose conscription in Great Britain, but not in Ireland or any other country around the world.

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Moreuil

Moreuil is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

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Munich Agreement

The Munich Agreement was an agreement reached in Munich on 30 September 1938, by Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom, the French Republic, and Fascist Italy.

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Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle upon Tyne, or simply Newcastle (RP), is a city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England.

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Nijmegen

Nijmegen (Nijmeegs: italics) is the largest city in the Dutch province of Gelderland and the tenth largest of the Netherlands as a whole.

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Normandy landings

The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second World War.

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North African campaign

The North African campaign of World War II took place in North Africa from 10 June 1940 to 13 May 1943, fought between the Allies and the Axis Powers.

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Northern Command (United Kingdom)

Northern Command was a Home Command of the British Army from 1793 to 1889 and from 1905 to 1972.

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Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire (abbreviated Notts.) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England.

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Operation Bluecoat

Operation Bluecoat was a British offensive in the Battle of Normandy, from 30 July until 7 August 1944, during the Second World War.

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Operation Fustian

Operation Fustian was an airborne forces operation undertaken during the Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943 in the Second World War.

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Operation Market Garden

Operation Market Garden was an Allied military operation during the Second World War fought in the German-occupied Netherlands from 17 to 25 September 1944.

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Operation Michael

Operation Michael (Unternehmen Michael) was a major German military offensive during World War I that began the German spring offensive on 21 March 1918.

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Operation Overlord

Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful liberation of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II.

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Operation Plunder

Operation Plunder was a military operation to cross the Rhine on the night of 23 March 1945, launched by the 21st Army Group under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.

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Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company

Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company Limited, often referred to simply as "Palmers", was a British shipbuilding company.

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Panzer division (Wehrmacht)

A Panzer division was one of the armored (tank) divisions in the army of Nazi Germany during World War II.

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Pillbox (military)

A pillbox is a type of blockhouse, or concrete dug-in guard-post, often camouflaged, normally equipped with loopholes through which defenders can fire weapons.

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Rees, Germany

Rees is a town in the district of Kleve in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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River Tyne

The River Tyne is a river in North East England.

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Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.

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Royal Berkshire Regiment

The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1959.

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Royal Corps of Signals

The Royal Corps of Signals (often simply known as the Royal Signals – abbreviated to R SIGNALS or R SIGS) is one of the combat support arms of the British Army.

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Royal Engineers

The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually called the Royal Engineers (RE), and commonly known as the Sappers, is the engineering arm of the British Army.

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Royal Hampshire Regiment

The Hampshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, created as part of the Childers Reforms in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 37th (North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot and the 67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.

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Royal Pioneer Corps

The Royal Pioneer Corps was a British Army combatant and non-combatant corps used for light engineering tasks.

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Seaham

Seaham is a seaside town in County Durham, England.

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Second Battle of El Alamein

The Second Battle of El Alamein (23 October – 11 November 1942) was a battle of the Second World War that took place near the Egyptian railway halt of El Alamein. The First Battle of El Alamein and the Battle of Alam el Halfa had prevented the Axis from advancing further into Egypt. In October 1942 Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery commander of Eighth Army, opened his offensive against the Axis forces.

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Second Battle of Passchendaele

The Second Battle of Passchendaele was the culminating attack during the Third Battle of Ypres of the First World War.

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Second Boer War

The Second Boer War (Tweede Vryheidsoorlog,, 11 October 189931 May 1902), also known as the Boer War, Anglo–Boer War, or South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer republics (the South African Republic and Orange Free State) over the Empire's influence in Southern Africa.

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Seine

The Seine is a river in northern France.

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Selle (Somme tributary)

The Selle (also spelt Celle in the Oise) is a river of Hauts-de-France, France.

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Siege of Badajoz (1812)

The Siege of Badajoz (16 March – 6 April 1812), also called the Third Siege of Badajoz, was an Anglo-Portuguese Army under the Earl of Wellington (later the Duke of Wellington) besieged Badajoz, Spain, and forced the surrender of the French garrison.

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Sir Charles Palmer, 1st Baronet

Sir Charles Mark Palmer, 1st Baronet (3 November 1822 – 4 June 1907) was an English shipbuilder born in South Shields, County Durham, England.

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Somme (river)

The Somme is a river in Picardy, northern France.

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Sommerfeld tracking

Sommerfeld tracking, named after German expatriate engineer, Kurt Joachim Sommerfeld,Smith, David J. "Britain's Military airfields 1939-45" then living in Cambridge, England, it was a lightweight wire mesh type of prefabricated airfield surface.

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Southampton

Southampton is a port city in Hampshire, England.

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Steenvoorde

Steenvoorde is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.

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Sunderland

Sunderland is a port city in Tyne and Wear, England.

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Territorial Force

The Territorial Force was a part-time volunteer component of the British Army, created in 1908 to augment British land forces without resorting to conscription.

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Third Battle of the Aisne

The Third Battle of the Aisne (3e Bataille de l'Aisne) was part of the German spring offensive during World War I that focused on capturing the Chemin des Dames Ridge before the American Expeditionary Forces arrived completely in France.

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Tripoli, Libya

Tripoli (translation) is the capital and largest city of Libya, with a population of about 1.183 million people in 2023.

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Tyne Electrical Engineers

The Tyne Electrical Engineers (TEE) is a Volunteer unit of the British Army that has existed under various titles since 1860. 1st Newcastle Engineers and Tyne Electrical Engineers are engineer Volunteer Corps of the British Army, military units and formations established in 1860, military units and formations in Newcastle upon Tyne and military units and formations in Northumberland.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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Universal Carrier

The Universal Carrier, also known as the Bren Gun Carrier and sometimes simply the Bren Carrier from the light machine gun armament, is a common name describing a family of light armoured tracked vehicles built by Vickers-Armstrongs and other companies.

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VIII Corps Troops, Royal Engineers

VIII Corps Troops, Royal Engineers (VIII CTRE) was a battalion-sized unit of Royal Engineers (RE) attached to the British Army's VIII Corps Headquarters in World War II.

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Volunteer Force

The Volunteer Force was a citizen army of part-time rifle, artillery and engineer corps, created as a popular movement throughout the British Empire in 1859.

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Wadi

Wadi (wādī), alternatively wād (وَاد), Maghrebi Arabic Oued) is the Arabic term traditionally referring to a river valley. In some instances, it may refer to a wet (ephemeral) riverbed that contains water only when heavy rain occurs. Arroyo (Spanish) is used in the Americas for similar landforms.

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Western Front (World War I)

The Western Front was one of the main theatres of war during the First World War.

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William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong

William George Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, (26 November 1810 – 27 December 1900) was an English engineer and industrialist who founded the Armstrong Whitworth manufacturing concern on Tyneside.

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Winchester

Winchester is a cathedral city in Hampshire, England.

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Worksop

Worksop is a market town in the Bassetlaw District in Nottinghamshire, England.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Ypres Salient

The Ypres Salient, around Ypres, in Belgium, was the scene of several battles and a major part of the Western Front during World War I.

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11th Armoured Division (United Kingdom)

The 11th Armoured Division was an armoured division of the British Army which was created in March 1941 during the Second World War.

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148th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)

The 148th Infantry Brigade was an infantry brigade formation of the British Army that served in both the First and briefly in the Second World War as part of the 49th (West Riding) Infantry Division and disbanded after the war.

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149th (Northumberland) Brigade

The Northumberland Brigade was formed in 1908 as part of the Territorial Force of the British Army with four battalions of the Northumberland Fusiliers. 1st Newcastle Engineers and 149th (Northumberland) Brigade are military units and formations in Northumberland.

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150th (York and Durham) Brigade

The 150th (York and Durham) Brigade was a formation of the Territorial Force of the British Army.

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150th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)

The 150th Infantry Brigade was an infantry formation of the British Army that saw active service in the Second World War.

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151st (Durham Light Infantry) Brigade

The Durham Light Infantry Brigade was formed in 1902 to command the part-time Volunteer battalions of the Durham Light Infantry (DLI).

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15th Infantry Division (India)

The 15th Indian Division was an infantry division of the British Indian Army that saw active service in the First World War.

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168th (2nd London) Brigade

The 168th (2nd London) Brigade was an infantry brigade formation of the British Army that saw service during both the First and the Second World Wars.

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1st Armoured Brigade (United Kingdom)

The 1st Armoured Brigade, raised as the 1st Light Armoured, on 14 April 1940 its designation changed to 1st Armoured Brigade Group, an armoured formation of the British Army.

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1st Durham Engineers

The 1st Durham Engineers, later Durham Fortress Engineers, was a Volunteer unit of the British Army's Royal Engineers.

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21st Army Group

The 21st Army Group was a British headquarters formation formed during the Second World War.

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222nd Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)

The 222nd Infantry Brigade was a Home Service formation of the British Army that existed under various short-lived titles in both the First and Second World Wars.

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231st Brigade (United Kingdom)

The 231st Brigade was an infantry brigade of the British Army that saw active service in both the First and the Second World Wars.

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23rd (Northumbrian) Division

The 23rd (Northumbrian) Division was an infantry division of the British Army, which fought briefly in the Battle of France during the Second World War. 1st Newcastle Engineers and 23rd (Northumbrian) Division are military units and formations in Northumberland.

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24th Division (United Kingdom)

The 24th Division was an infantry division of the British Army, raised in September 1914 from men volunteering for Lord Kitchener's New Armies during the First World War.

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28th Division (United Kingdom)

The 28th Division was an infantry division of the British Army raised for service in World War I.

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2nd Division (Portugal)

The 2nd Division was one of the two divisions of the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps (CEP, Corpo Expedicionário Português), the main military force of Portugal that fought in the World War I Western Front on the side of the Allies.

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2nd Infantry Division (United Kingdom)

The 2nd Infantry Division was an infantry division of the British Army that was formed and disestablished numerous times between 1809 and 2012.

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40th Division (United Kingdom)

The 40th Division was an infantry division of the British Army active during the First World War, where it served on the Western Front.

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47th (London) Infantry Division

The 47th (London) Infantry Division was an infantry division of the British Army that was formed during the Second World War and remained in the United Kingdom until the end of the war.

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48th (South Midland) Division

The 48th (South Midland) Division was an infantry division of the British Army.

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49th (West Riding) Infantry Division

The 49th (West Riding) Infantry Division was an infantry division of the British Army.

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4th Infantry Division (India)

The 4th Indian Infantry Division, also known as the Red Eagle Division, is an infantry division of the Indian Army.

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4th Infantry Division (United Kingdom)

The 4th Infantry Division was a regular infantry division of the British Army with a very long history, seeing active service in the Peninsular War and Waterloo Campaign, the Crimean and Boer Wars and both World Wars.

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50th (Northumbrian) Division

|unit_name. 1st Newcastle Engineers and 50th (Northumbrian) Division are military units and formations in Northumberland.

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50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division

The 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division was an infantry division of the British Army that saw distinguished service in the Second World War.

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56th (London) Infantry Division

The 56th (London) Infantry Division was a Territorial Army infantry division of the British Army, which served under several different titles and designations.

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5th (Cyclist) Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment

The 5th (Cyclist) Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment was a mobile coast defence unit of Britain's Territorial Force.

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5th Infantry Division (United Kingdom)

The 5th Infantry Division was a regular army infantry division of the British Army.

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63rd (2nd Northumbrian) Division

The 63rd (2nd Northumbrian) Division of the British Army was a second-line Territorial Force division, formed in 1914, which served on home defence duties during the First World War. 1st Newcastle Engineers and 63rd (2nd Northumbrian) Division are military units and formations in Northumberland.

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63rd (Royal Naval) Division

The 63rd (Royal Naval) Division was a United Kingdom infantry division of the First World War.

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79th Armoured Division (United Kingdom)

The 79th Armoured Division was a specialist armoured division of the British Army created during the Second World War.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Newcastle_Engineers

Also known as 103 (Newcastle) Field Squadron, Royal Engineers, 103 Field Engineer Regiment, Royal Engineers, 103 Field Squadron, Royal Engineers, 1st (The Newcastle) Northumbrian Field Company, Royal Engineers, 1st Newcastle Engineer Volunteer Corps, 232nd (Northumbrian) Field Company, Royal Engineers, 233rd (Northumbrian) Field Company, Royal Engineers, 234th (Northumbrian) Field Company, Royal Engineers, 235th (Northumbrian) Field Park Company, Royal Engineers, 23rd (Northumbrian) Divisional Engineers, 2nd (The Newcastle) Northumbrian Field Company, Royal Engineers, 2nd Provisional Field Company, Royal Engineers, 446th (1st Northumbrian) Field Company, Royal Engineers, 447th (2nd Northumbrian) Field Company, Royal Engineers, 448th (Northumbrian) Field Company, Royal Engineers, 449th (Northumbrian) Field Company, Royal Engineers, 450th (Northumbrian) Field Company, Royal Engineers, 451st (Northumbrian) Field Company, Royal Engineers, 505th Field Company, Royal Engineers, 506th Field Company, Royal Engineers, 507th Field Company, Royal Engineers, 508th Field Park Company, Royal Engineers, 50th (Northumbrian) Divisional Engineers, 50th GHQ Troops, Royal Engineers, 63rd (2nd Northumbrian) Divisional Engineers, 641st (Northumbrian) Field Company, Royal Engineers, Northumbrian Divisional Engineers.

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