Royal Engineers

Connections

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Family and Intimate relationships Joanna Trollope
Her father, Arthur George Cecil Trollope , always known as Tony, was a classically-educated businessman who built up the City of London Building Society (later merged with the Chelsea Building Society ) from a small...
Family and Intimate relationships Zadie Smith
ZS 's father, Harvey Smith , was born an Englishman and a Greater Londoner. His family was poor: his parents could not afford the uniform needed to send him to grammar school, so this avenue...
Family and Intimate relationships Enid Bagnold
EB 's father was army officer Arthur Henry Bagnold , of the Royal Engineers .
Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986.
6-7
Family and Intimate relationships Alison Uttley
When war came, James Uttley was commissioned in the Royal Engineers .
Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph, 1986.
82
Friends, Associates Mary Anne Barker
MAB became a friend to the young Rider Haggard , and worked to promote his early writing. She mentions with respect many of the distinguished military and civil servants of the Crown whom she got...
Residence Enid Bagnold
The young EB lived in Jamaica, near Kingston, where her father was a commanding officer in the Royal Engineers .
Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986.
13, 17

Timeline

1997: Women members of the Royal Engineers and...

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1997

Women members of the Royal Engineers and the Royal Artillery were this year allowed to take positions at the front, although British infantry, submarine, and tank positions were still restricted to men.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

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