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RE Electrical Engineers Tyne If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about the Royal Engineers? There are:8758 items tagged Royal Engineers available in our Library   These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War. Those known to have served with RE Electrical Engineers Tyne during the Great War 1914-1918. Cook William. Sgt.Mjr. (d.20th Mar 1919) Niddrie John Edward. Spr. All names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List Records of RE Electrical Engineers Tyne from other sources. The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website. 1st of September 2023 marks 24 years since the launch of the Wartime Memories Project. 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Announcements 27th April 2024     Please note we currently have a massive backlog of submitted material, our volunteers are working through this as quickly as possible and all names, stories and photos will be added to the site. If you have already submitted a story to the site and your UID reference number is higher than 264001 your submission is still in the queue, please do not resubmit. Wanted: Digital copies of Group photographs, Scrapbooks, Autograph books, photo albums, newspaper clippings, letters, postcards and ephemera relating to the Great War. If you have any unwanted photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. Please get in touch for the postal address, do not sent them to our PO Box as packages are not accepted. We are now on Facebook. Like this page to receive our updates, add a comment or ask a question. If you have a general question please post it on our Facebook page. World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great battalion regiment artillery Did you know? We also have a section on World War Two. and a Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations. 215231 Sgt.Mjr. William Cook 16th Tyne Fortress Works Coy. Royal Engineers (d.20th Mar 1919) Sergeant Major William Cook served with the 16th Tyne Fortress Works Coy. Royal Engineers. He was awarded the MSM (Long Service and Good Conduct Medal) He had been born in Burslem Staffordshire and served in the South African War. He was the son of Joseph and Annie Cook of Southsea Hampshire and husband of Christina Cook (nee Lydon) of 13 Holly Street Jarrow. On the 1911 census he is listed as William Cook age 30 Sergeant Major Instructor of Territorial Force, living with his wife Christina Cook and mother in law Elizabeth Lydon at 2 Nixon Street, Jarrow William died aged 37 on 20th March 1919 and is buried in Jarrow Cemetery. Vin Mullen Add to this record. 214884 Spr. John Edward Niddrie Tyne Electrical Engineers Royal Engineers John Edward Niddrie, Sapper 412 attested on the 26th February 1912 and joined Tyne Electrical Engineers. Royal Engineers at Cliffords Fort in North Shields. He was 17 years and 6 months old and a Marine Plumber with Northumberland Shipbuilding. He also became a highly qualified Electrical and Telephone Engineer during his military service. His service record shows the following postings: 4th Mar 1912 to 4th Aug 1914 Home Service in reserve, 5th Aug 1914 to 20th Aug 1915 Home Service embodied (mobilized), 21st Aug 1915 to 30th Aug 1916 France and Flanders embodied, 1st Sep 1916 to 14th April 1917 Home Service. From the 9th September until his release on 14th April 1917 he was on Civilian Employment attachment to Northumberland Shipbuilders due to his marine electrical and plumbing abilities and his earlier employment with them. He was born in Jarrow on the 8th July 1894 and his parents were Robert Hutchin and Isabella Neddrie (nee Linsley) He married Margaret Blenkey in Gateshead on the 1st September 1917. He re-enlisted on a 90 day emergency service agreement on the 12th April 1921 with his old unit TEE-RE with Service No. 465105. At that time he was living at 4 Orchard Place, Dunston-on-Tyne with his wife Margaret and their two young sons, Robert Hutchin, b 29th Oct 1919 and John William, b 4th April 1918. John Edward Niddrie is recorded as having died during the quarter Oct - Dec 1922.(Gateshead Records) Vin Mullen Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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