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From: Judy Acaster <>
Subject: Re: [BOER-WAR] Sapper/Royal Engineers/S.A. Campaign
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 19:19:50 +0800
In-Reply-To: <Sea1-DAV42Xmm2QirYn00005b7e@hotmail.com>


Thanks Wendy - all information gratefully received!

Judy


on 19/10/03 2:41 PM, Wendy King at wrote:

> Hi Judy
>
> A Sapper was the Royal Engineers (formerlt the Royal Sappers and Miners)
> equivalent of a corporal, responsible for digging trenches and doing the work
> on building bridges, and whatever other structures were needed.
>
> The photography would probably to provide information about terrain etc
>
> regards
>
> Wendy
> ----- Original Message -----
>

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