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7th Survey Regiment RA

(BUT SOFT WE ARE OBSERVING)

This site (still under construction) is dedicated to all those who served in this regiment from its formation in Suton Veny in 1941 to its disbandment in Germany on the 10 November 1945

 

Formation of the Regiment.

Why "The Shiny Seventh"

Col Clegg Memories

7th Survey Regiment Rhine Crossing

Long Traverse From Juno

War Diary 1941

War Diary 1942

War Diary 1943

War Diaries 1944

War Diaries 1945

Troop Photographs

7th Survey Regt. R.A. List of Names

Roll of Honour

Honours & Decorations

On Parade 7th Survey Regiment Magazine

Miscellaneous

Post Cards, Pictures of Places the Regiment Visited 1941 to 1944

D.R.Osborne Photograph General  Photographs Bury

Jack Bobbitt

Gordon Brown

H.H.B Clegg., D.S.O

John Corscaden Remembers

Richard Andrew Croke

R. Jackson

Ben James

Ernest Alfred Mann

D.R.Osborne

Capt René de Péyrecave

William Hubert Small

Richard Wildish

Ernest Henry Joseph Young


Further information on the part played by the various Survey Regiments, may be found in a newly published book, "Larkhill's Wartime Locators."
by Massimo Mangilli-Climpson. who was born in Nottingham in 1956, the son of  an officer in 3rd Survey Regiment. He was educated at Stamford School and at the Universities of Aberystwyth, Reading and Salford.  The book may be purchased from Pen and Sword Books.

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Artillery survey suffered during the pacifist inter-war period but the war in North Africa highlighted its importance. By the end of 1942 ten major survey units had been formed. Nine were conventional serving in all the main theatres, including the Far East. They played a key part in victories such as El Alamein, Anzio, Caen and Imphal, with their flash-spotting, sound-ranging and surveying of gun lines. A tenth regiment was secretly involved tracing the flight of Hitler’s V1 and V2 rockets in order to locate their launch bases. These ‘soldier-scientists’ were all trained at the School of Survey, Larkhill, on Salisbury Plain. Their work took them to the front line and a considerable number were casualties or became POWs. This is the story of the contribution of these 4,000 men who made up the Survey Regiments. It tells of the heroes, such as Robert (Tug) Wilson of the SBS and the skilful men whose actions under the most difficult and dangerous conditions have received little acknowledgement until now.

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Acknowledgements

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