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Kent Fortress Company. Royal Engineers
The Kent Fortress Royal Engineers was unit of the Territorial Army reformed in in 1932 by Major Clifford Brazier, the works manager of Bevans Cement Works (Blue Circle Cement Company) at Northfleet, Kent and was largely made up of company employees. They were trained as demolition specialists and saw action in France and the Low countries, the Middle East and Greece.
10th May 1940 Destruction Planned
12th May 1940 Orders
13th May 1940 Demolition
14th May 1940 Rescue
18th Jun 1940 Evacuation
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Cpl. Horace Ernest Ayears 579 Field Coy. Royal Engineers (d.17th Jun 1940) My father, Cpl H E Ayears of Kent Fortress Royal Engineers TA, died
on the Lancastria. He should have returned on the Duchess Of York but he volunteered to return to Honfleur with Captain T Goodwin (who survived) and party to destroy oil storage depot there. When they returned to the docks the Duchess Of York had sailed, so they boarded Lancastria. I have been told he was asleep in No 1 hold at time of bomb. I have obtained a lot of information from C.C. Brazier's book "XD Operations". It also contains a Roll Of Honour from his party from Kent Fortress Royal Engineers who died with him.
- Sapper H.W.Blackman.
- Lance Cpl.E.G.Brown.
- Sapper.S.J.Owen.
- Lance Cpl.E.E.Plummer
- Sapper.S.J.Ruck.
- Lance Cpl.Shute.
Incidentally my mothers wedding ring fell off at 4 pm on the 17th of June 1940 into a bowl of water.
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