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Queen's Engineering Works Magazine No 12 Contents include: - Photographs of Major-General Fry inspecing the 1st City of London Battalion (Royal Fusiliers) and Member of the Bedfordshire Yeomanry from the Queen's Engineering Works (all named) - review of 1914 including number of hands in the works reduced by 304 men who have joined up, changes to the works, work in Rochdale and Egypt, pumping machinery for the new dock at Hull and plant for docks in Japan and Holland, completion of orders for SS Britannic and Olympic. - The Testing of Centrifugal Pumps by R Alan S Thwaites - War and trade - A Large Gasholder by C B Wigg - Military Section giving a list of past students serving in the allied forces and members of staff and employees who have joined the colours (gives name and battalion and/or regiment - Letters from past and present pupils: 2nd Lieut J P Davidson at the front, 2nd Lieut R H Wilson at Aldershot, Trooper E Sawyer in Essex, Private Cyril T Witt at the front (with photo), M M HOdson-Mackenzie in the British Red Cross, Private H E W Auger in France (with photo), Private W J Lodge in the Public Schools Brigade, Corporals J A P Bax and R H Ross in Bury St Edmunds, 2nd Lieut T H Storey with the East Anglian Royal Engineers, Sergeant Stanley F Polhill in the 5th Signal Company Royal Engineers, Lieut C C Dugdale in Newcastle-on-Tyne, - Death of Captain J Francis Allen, 6th son of W H Allen, who died from wounds in hospital at Ypres - Bedfordshire Special constables - Notice from Winston S Churchill which had been posted throughout the works - Training with the Bedfordshire Yeomanry - The Building of a Steam Turbine by L A C Ridout - The new docks at Hull - Bearing Metals by R T Rolfe - The Allen County Apprenticeships - Pupils' and Apprentices' Section with reports from G K Johnson in Dublin, H T Wells in British East Africa, Alaric J Tremayne writing about his experience of the Argentine while awaiting orders having enlisted, E H Harris having just returned from the River Plate, R Bailey on his experiences on HM ships. - The Fullagar Balanced Gas Engine by Harold G Allen - An Internal Grinding Head by Alfred E Collinson

January 1915

From: 1915 To: 1915

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Davidson, J P,
Wilson, R H,
Sawyer, E,
Witt, Cyril,
Hodson-Mackenzie, M M,
Auger, H E W,
Lodge, W J,
Bax, J A P,
Ross, R H,
Storey, T H,
Polhill, Stanley F,
Dugdale, Charles Cyril,
Allen, J Francis,
Churchill, Winston Spencer,
Johnson, G K,
Wells, H T,
Tremayne, Alaric,
Harris, Edward Henry,
Bailey, R (d)

Bedfordshire Yeomanry, World War One, naval ships, civil ships, gas, general trade & industry, British Red Cross Society, special constables, Rochdale, Hull, Egypt, Japan, Holland, Dublin, Africa, Argentina