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Reference: Memoirs of an Army Meteorologist
Sep 4, 2024 · 129 min read · 1917 1918 Meteor Meteorological Office Meteorological Field Service Royal Engineers 4th Army 3rd Army 15th Division Headquarters GHQ OTC ASC WAAC Harry Cotton chlorine gas Phosgene gas Gas Artist Rifles Meteor Met Office Meteorological Officer Meteorological Section Kite Balloon Demobilisation Albert Amiens Beauquesne Bray Dunes Chatham Estrées Helfant Hesdin Montreuil Passchendaele Pont Noyelle Senlecques Somme St Omer Terramesnil Flanders Ypres Villers Carbonnel Spring offensive ·Originally published in The Meteorological Magazine between 1979 and 1980. © Crown Copyright. Figure 1. WW1 Era Kite Ballon, similar to what Harry Cotton would have made his observations from, Author's Collection Sourced and provided by the National Meteorological Library and Archive — Met Office, UK. Reproduced here …
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Reference: The Meteorological Office and The First World War
Sep 4, 2024 · 15 min read · Zeppelins E. Gold GHQ Artillery Gas Cambrai Hulluch Italy France St. Omer Ypres Meteor Meteorological Office Meteorological Field Service Royal Engineers 3rd Division 51st Division 8th Brigade 76th Brigade 154th Brigade 4th Gordon Highlanders Loos Projectors Kite Ballon RFC ·Original published in The Meteorological Magazine , Volume 84, No. 996, June 1955, pp.173-178. © Crown Copyright. Link to original . As sourced and provided by the National Meteorological Library and Archive — Met Office, UK. Reproduced here under the Open Government Licence. Figure 1. Source Unknown, Wind and Weather …
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Soldier-cartoonist: Sapper Charles Albert Kennett, Royal Engineers
Jun 27, 2024 · 10 min read · Royal Engineers Sapper Labour Battalion Queens Own (Royal West Kent) Regiment 706th Labour Corps 2nd Army 4th Army IX Corps Charlton Dover Kent The Out-of-Work-Donation Postcard Dole George William Macey Imperial War Museum Blighty Postcard Series SOLDIER CARTOONS BLIGHTY A BUDGET HUMOUR FROM HOME ·Sapper Charles Albert Barlow Kennett, Royal Engineers 7th Labour Company (later 706th Labour Company) Service Number: 59312 Born: 7 March 1898, Crewe, Cheshire. Died: 16 May 1979, Waterloo, Liverpool (aged 81) Figure 1. Charles "Chas" Albert Kennett, picture courtesy of Craig Williams, reproduced here with permission …
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