Royal Engineers (REME)
My Dad served in the Royal Engineers (later REME), having trained within the Royal Army Service Corps, from 1940 to 1946, including the North African and European campaigns; he worked as a driver and engineer, specialising in tank maintenance and repairs.
On
a visit to Bayeux Cemetery I took these pictures; just a few of the very many
Royal Engineers buried there, and elsewhere in Europe. It is not intended to be
a representative sample by age or rank, it is entirely random, based on walking
some of the many, many rows of headstones in the cemetery. I have no idea if
they had even met Dad, let alone been mates, but they were in the same outfit,
so there’s a chance. In any case, there WILL be some good friends of his buried
here.
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Some more general pictures and a brief video of Bayeux Cemetery appear here and on my way back from Normandy I went to the Tank Museum, Dorset, UK, some more pictures that I took are to be found there, including a very revealing one of the famous Sherman ‘DD’ Swimming Tank. |
LINKS:
http://groups.msn.com/REMEPastPresent and AOBA are just two of many websites where Royal Engineers’ Veterans matters are discussed, and those sites have extensive links to others of interest, and a lot of useful information for Veterans