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7th Survey Regiment RA |
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(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
7th Survey Regt. R.A. List of Names
On Parade 7th Survey Regiment Magazine
Post Cards, Pictures of Places the Regiment Visited 1941 to 1944
D.R.Osborne Photograph General Photographs Bury
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.
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. |
