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From: "Ken Wilson-Wheeler" <>
Subject: Re: [WW1] Special Workshops Branch, Royal Engineers
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 19:56:10 +0100
References: <006a01c0bab2$fbeafbc0$5d7c69d5@michael>


Special Companies R.E. dealt with the British use of chemical warfare, i.e.
gas. So, the Special Workshops probably did so too.
Ken.
(In West Sussex, UK).

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Cross" <>
To: <>
Sent: 01 April 2001 14:52
Subject: [WW1] Special Workshops Branch, Royal Engineers


> Lance Corporal Thomas Omey Bryant was shot on 1st August 1916 and died on
7th August. He is buried at Bailleul. Can anyone tell me what the role of
the 'Special Workshops Branch' was ? This detail has been obtained from the
CWGC site.
>
> Michael Cross
>
> ______________________________

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