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Title: Tug boat master in Royal Engineers?
Post by: bkernos on Friday 26 January 18 23:23 GMT (UK)

My GGG Cousin, Henry Albert Hogg.
I was going through his records on Ancestry and it looks like he may have been a tug boat master in the Royal Engineers in France in WW1.  He was posted to B.E.F. (BF7?) in Calais.  Would that be correct - what would a tug boat master be doing in WW1?
Any help would be appreciated.
Barb.

Title: Re: Tug boat master in Royal Engineers?
Post by: mmm45 on Friday 26 January 18 23:36 GMT (UK)

Have a google of "inland waterways and transport Royal Engineers"

Ady

Title: Re: Tug boat master in Royal Engineers?
Post by: MaxD on Saturday 27 January 18 10:03 GMT (UK)

His second number has the WR prefix and the IWT and IWTD (the "D" stands for Docks) on his records both indicate, as Ady rightly points you to, the Inland Waterways and Transport element of the RE.

The frustration with them (and with his record) is that once posted to France in March 1918, there is no indication of whereabouts he was operating.   War diaries for individual sections do not seem to exist although a major effort was in the canals leading from the port at Ouistreham/Caen.  Ady's suggestion will bring up a number of things worth reading.

MaxD

Title: Re: Tug boat master in Royal Engineers?
Post by: bkernos on Sunday 28 January 18 01:42 GMT (UK)

Thanks for all the help
Barb