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The News / Editorial Pages


These pages have the past news of the Royal Pioneer Corps Association and its work.
All news stories will be kept and archived and will be available to read from here.

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    December 2002

 

 

 

 

A glimpse of things to come...

We have many exciting items to add to the site in the near future.
Some of these are a shop, where you can buy anything from ties and shields to books etc. Also there is a vast archive of pictures that will be going online - I have lost count at how many now ! - but at least 1 thousand pictures !
Then we have electronic versions of some books that will be available shortly. As you can see a lot to go online, so please be patient.
We also have had a CD's made up of every single page of every single Corps magazine and this will be made available shortly. The history section will get very big next year !

If anyone has emailed us about research into relatives etc,
we haven't forgotten you, its just that these things take time.

We have had over 11,000 unique hits to the site so far
and over 45,000 hits on the forums !

Merry Christmas and Happy New-Year
from everyone at The Pioneer

December 24th

    April 2002

  Britains Toughest Jobs

Jeremy Spake is out to find the hardest job in Britain.
Jeremy visits 23 Pioneer regiment in Oman.
Surely the toughest job in Britian is not the RLC !

BBC1 Friday 26 April, 19:00 - 19:30.

April 24th

    February 2002

  2002 calendar page

All the known up to minute details of future
events etc are now online in the events section !

February 1st

  Are you insane ?

Do you think that you are insane ?
Take this test and find out for sure !

February 1st

   
    December 2001


  new link - 168 Pioneer Regiment, RLC

168 Pioneer Regiment is tasked with providing Specialist Logistic Pioneer Support primarily to the British Army - a role that calls for this huge variety of skills and abilities. All this, as well as being trained soldiers. In any military operation, the British Army requires skilled personnel to carry out these vital jobs. This task is Specialist Logistic Pioneer Support.

December 29th

   Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year !  

I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has emailed me and used the forums. The website has been online for around 7 months and we have had thousands and thousands of people visit it. We have many new items, stories, past events etc to go online next year.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New-Year !
All the best,
Norman Brown
and Paul Brown
        

December 14th


  book review - England's Last Hope

Here is a great book to read over the Christmas and New Year peiod.
It is the true story of Gerry 'Cloggy' Compton, a boy soldier in 1942 and who retired as 521 Royal Pioneer Corps CSM in 1969. Gerry has led a life packed with more experiences than most people would dare to imagine for themselves and this book is a definite must have read !

December 13th


  book review - It don't cost you a penny

I don't often get the chance to read two good books back to back but here is another great book to read over the holidays ! It is a very funny account of a private soldier's soldiering.

December 13th


website update & tidyup before 2002

Have updated the website - first update since September time.
Main items that have been changed are :-

»  cosmetic makeover of majority of site
»
 missing buddies
section updated with new people added
»  forum changes to layout etc
»  downloads section updated
»  new books in history section
»  new pictures in humour section
»  new links added and updated
»  new sitemap
»  over 200 new pictures of Pioneers scanned in ! (online soon)

December 13th

   
    September 2001


in memory

In memory of all who have perished in America this week; the passengers and pilots on the United and AA flights, the workers in the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, emergency personnel and all the innocent bystanders. Our prayers go out to the friends and family of the deceased.

September 13th


  newsletter WO's and SNCO's reunion club

Only the second newsletter to go online and quite a big one at that.
Details on ladies dinner night, quiz, book worth reading, mr ron harrop, minutes of last AGM, history bit and list of members.

September 2nd


  ladies dinner night - Saturday 13th October 2001

You should have the form to fill in for this. If not goto the newsletters page, download september newsletter and print out form on last page.

Returns must be received by 3rd October 2001. Remember we had to turn people away last year because we were over subscribed !
September 2nd

   
    August 2001


  missing buddies page updated

The missing buddies page is now updated. We will soon have access to a database of people in the UK and will be available to Pioneers and ex-Pioneers to use for a fee of a fiver - only to be paid if we are successful in finding your buddy.
August 22nd


  photo gallery updates

Photo gallery is now updated with some
pictures of 23 Pioneer Regiment in action.

August 22nd


editor's note



I have been getting quite a lot of requests for searches - our historian is currently on exercise for a few months and we will get round to them when he is back.
Have updated the forums to give details on how to go about posting messages and obtaining passwords etc.
August 21st

   
        July 2001


  newsletter (northampton branch)

The first newsletter to go online and hot off the press !
A
small newsletter with an obituary to
Ron Harrop and details of the Summer Ball etc.

July 9th


  summer ball

Northampton Branch of the Royal Pioneer Corps Association has a
summer ball on Saturday 4th August. Live band, great food...

July 7th


  humour pages

The humour pages have been updated.
Guaranteed to raise a smile or two...

July 7th

   
        June 2001


  fun and games section

The Fun and Games section !
Loads of excellent games, jokes and humour etc to keep you amused !

June 25th


  photo gallery

The Rogues Gallery ! - Photos old and new. Do you recognise who this is?
Send in your pictures now to appear in this section !
June 18th


  23 Pioneer Regiment, Royal Logistics Corps

Details and exploits of the 23 Pioneer Regiment, Royal Logistics Corps are now online.
There is an interesting article on life as a UK Army 'Professional Slaughterman'.
June 15th

  forums update

Just a quick reminder that when you post into the forums you need a password for the RPC members forum and the 23 Pioneer Regiment Forum.. All the other forums you just need to enter a username (anything you want), and don't enter anything for the password. When you are there please sign the guestbook.
June 12th

  special article for D-Day

54 years ago today since D-Day.
Have you ever heard about Compound 219 ?
June 6th

website launched

RoyalPioneerCorps.co.uk website is finally launched ! - hope you like it.
If anyone has any articles, pictures, stories etc that they would like to see added to this site then please get in touch. This website will be updated on a regular basis. You can tell when it was last updated by looking at this news page. This site is best viewed with Microsoft Internet Explorer 5x.

June 6th

  pioneer corps magazines

There are 180 magazines in total dating from 1943 to 1993.
The most prestigious occasions of the Corps will be put online in full.
Also the war history of the Royal Pioneer Corps from 1939-1945 by
Major E. H. Rhodes-Wood will also be available for download in electronic form to read.
This project will not be ready though for some time.
June 6th


   
        February / March / April / May

   website under construction

Work is now underway on The Royal Pioneer Corps website and hopefully will launch sometime in May/June.
February / March / April / May

 

                                           Labor Omnia Vincit  ( work conquers everything )