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Offline bacday

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Pioneer corps, 174 company
« on: Monday 22 October 12 23:15 BST (UK) »
 I've obtained my father's service records and I recently discovered that my father served with the Pioneer corps 174 company in WW2 in France, Holland and Germany from Aug 1944 until Apr 1946. I would love to know the details of what his company was doing and where he served. Could you help please? I wondered whether the company would have had a log? His name was William Lewis Peake, and his service no. was 142869
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Offline GrahamSimons

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Re: Pioneer corps, 174 company
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 23 October 12 23:09 BST (UK) »
The War Diaries of that unit are at The National Archives. I found them by searching on 174 and "Pioneer Corps" - the locations will start to tell a story.

http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/search/advanced-search

These haven't yet been digitised as far as I know so you'd need to go to Kew or get someone to look things up for you.
Simons Barrett Jaffray Waugh Langdale Heugh Meade Garnsey Evans Vazie Mountcure Glascodine Parish Peard Smart Dobbie Sinclair....
in Stirlingshire, Roxburghshire; Bucks; Devon; Somerset; Northumberland; Carmarthenshire; Glamorgan
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