Phil Sutters' photos with the keyword: Royal Engineers

Uploaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park 'telephones' week. Howard was my grandfather. He is the one lounging back in his shirt-sleeves. I guess that this was taken while training in England. These troops would eventually be formed into the Royal Corps of Signals. They laid thousands of miles of telephone cables along and between the trenches in France and Belgium. I know that he was at the battle of Ypres, but little else about his war.

My grandfather Howard Sadler, on the left, presumably in France or Belgium, in 1917, with a friend called Wilkie. He was a Sapper in the Royal Engineers, that was his rank. He was a signaller, as shown by the blue and white armband. He communicated between units and their commanders using Morse code. This has been added to the Vintage Photos Theme Park for the 'pals, buddies etc.' theme.

One of the illustrations of the training and equipment for life in the trenches in WW1 from the book 'Kitchener's Army & the Territorial Forces". Published in around 1915, once the war had been going for a while. It is clearly a propaganda exercise to encourage recruitment and inspire confidence in the population on general. The book is extensively illustrated, with anything from 1 to 4 photos or drawings on each two page spread. There are 188 pages. Apart from a few artists' impressions of real action, all the photos are of training and other preparation in the UK. If anyone needs a particular image for a project on WW1 I can scan and upload an appropriate photo, if one is available. As this publication is almost 100 years old, I am assuming that it is out of copyright 10.3.2014 This book is now available on line at archive.org/details/kitchenersarmyte00wall It is noted that it is no longer in copyright so it provides a good resource for WW1 centenary projects.