{"id":29,"date":"2022-02-13T19:38:25","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T19:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelairdofglencairn.wordpress.com\/?page_id=29"},"modified":"2025-05-16T19:00:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T19:00:27","slug":"living-history-ww2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/?page_id=29","title":{"rendered":"Living History &#8211; WW2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"world-war-2-royal-engineers\">World War 2 Royal Engineers<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"royal-engineer-officer-nw-europe-1944-45\">Royal Engineer Officer NW Europe &amp; Italy 1943-45<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the things that I can provide is show and tell talks on Bailey Bridges and Clearing German Tellermines.  With KD and Battle Dress uniforms the Italian and NW Europe Theatres can be covered.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FB_IMG_1745788076543-696x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FB_IMG_1745788076543-696x1024.jpg 696w, https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FB_IMG_1745788076543-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FB_IMG_1745788076543-768x1130.jpg 768w, https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FB_IMG_1745788076543-1044x1536.jpg 1044w, https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FB_IMG_1745788076543-300x441.jpg 300w, https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FB_IMG_1745788076543-850x1251.jpg 850w, https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FB_IMG_1745788076543.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>As part of the RE Training Team attending the RE Museum event April 2025.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/KD-Kit-We-have-ways-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/KD-Kit-We-have-ways-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/KD-Kit-We-have-ways-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/KD-Kit-We-have-ways-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/KD-Kit-We-have-ways-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/KD-Kit-We-have-ways-850x638.jpg 850w, https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/KD-Kit-We-have-ways.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>With the Mine Clearance display, covering Italy 1943, at the <strong>We Have Ways Fest 2023<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"royal-engineer-soldier-nw-europe-1944-45\">Royal Engineer Soldier NW Europe &amp; Italy 1943-45<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I also cover the 1943-45 period from the soldiers perspective as a WO2 of a Royal Engineer Field Company<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"soldier-officer\">Soldier\/Officer Burma&nbsp; 1944-45<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"313\" height=\"287\" src=\"https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/251a5-133a36_89300dc67a2746a28cbe67909eaee46amv2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/251a5-133a36_89300dc67a2746a28cbe67909eaee46amv2.png 313w, https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/251a5-133a36_89300dc67a2746a28cbe67909eaee46amv2-300x275.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 313px) 100vw, 313px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>I also provide impression is for a Officer (Major) and Soldier (WO2) that may have served in the Far East in 1944\/45, particularly Burma.  This impression tends to focus on the Jungle Green uniform and the weapons\/ equipment of the period and makes for an interesting show and tell event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World War 2 Royal Engineers Royal Engineer Officer NW Europe &amp; Italy 1943-45 One of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1527,"href":"https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions\/1527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}