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From: Iain Kerr <>
Subject: Re: DURHAM ROYAL ENGINEERS
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 16:02:18 +0100


At 09:21 12/05/00 , Katey Gillinder wrote:
>I am having terrible trouble tracking down a relative.
>On one of his childrens birth certificates it lists
>his occupation as 'Sapper 1743 Durham Royal Engineers'.
>
>Can anyone point me in the right direction to find out
>more information about the Durham Royal Engineers as I
>am sure the regiment has changed name now??

Katey,

It would help if you could tell us the date of this record.

It sounds as if he was 1743 Sapper Name Surname and that he was serving in
the Durham Royal Engineers Volunteer Corps first raised as a new form of
part-time military forces in the 1860s.


Yours aye,

Iain Kerr
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