From the Archives

Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction

How the Reputation of the Corps was Forged on the Battlefield in 1942/43
The Birth of REME - 'What's in a Name!'
The REME Birth Certificate
The History of the REME Cap Badge
SS Engadine - Advanced Base Workshop (Light) (Floating) REME
Operation Grapple - 2 Special Engineer Regiment Workshop REME (Christmas Island)
REME Airborne Forces 1942 to the Present Day
St Eligius, the Patron Saint of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (and the Legend of the Severed Hoof)
Monty's Caravans
65 years on and the Corps continues to be very much 'On Message'
The Mobile Churches of Saint George and Saint Paul go to War
From Fork Prongs to Silver Medals
Aircraft Servicing in the Army - the Early Days
REME in the Crossing of the Rhine 1945
The First REME Arms School - Rushton Hall
'No News is Bad News!'
Lest We Forget (The Lenham Incident in World War II)
'Fetch Bluebell, Over!'
Leadership
The Birth of The Craftsman
Colonel-in-Chief HRH The Prince Philip (A Celebration of his 90th Birthday)
Operation Olympia - 29-30 August 1942
The Radfan Incident 1965
REME's Role in the Air Defence of Great Britain
Sweetheart Brooches (or What to give your Loved One on Saint Valentine's Day)
War Horses and the part played by the Army Remount Centre at Arborfield
Humour in Uniform (Funny True Stories about Life in the Military)
Discipline (RSM John Lord 'Style'!)
REME Olympic Heroes (Including the Story of the Soviet Union Pentathlon Team's Disqualification at Montreal in 1976)
REME Fires the Royal Salute
REME Guards The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street
Lest we Forget (REME Memorials in Recent Campaigns)
The Use of Toy Manufacturers in Covert Operations
'Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it's off to work we go...!' (The Origins of the Corps March)
The Mystery of how the REME Museum obtained Mussolini's Boots is Solved!
West Court - Special Training School 6 Special Operations Executive and the Resident Ghost!
The Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
The REME Officer and the Arctic Convoy!
The Jeep Assembly Competition 1953
The Lynmouth Flood and REME's part in the Disaster Recovery Operation
Monty and the Russian Marshal
Lest we Forget (Christ on the Battlefield)
The REME Museum's Victoria Cross
Arborfield as a Starfish Site
A Brief History of the REME Museum and Archives
Thelwell - From REME Sergeant to Artist and Cartoonist!
REME (SAS) Hero Honoured after 50 years
How the Electrical and Mechanical Services for the Army were Organized before REME was Formed 146
How REME Functioned in the Field During World War II (The Development of the Echelon Repair System)

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