National Archives catalogue number WO 169/8673.

Abbreviations

CREME O i/c OR REME

Commander Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers Officer-in-Command Other Ranks Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

Month and year: July 1943

Commanding Officer : Major W.J. Carrick

1st July 1943

Place: M'Saaken

Major-General G.F. Hopkinson O.B.E. M.C., General Officer Commanding 1 Airborne Division and Lieut. General Browning and an American General inspected the Workshop and its equipment.

2nd to 6th July 1943

Nothing to report.

7th July 1943

Major W.J. Carrick assumed the duties of C.R.E.M.E., Lieut.-Col. R.T.L. Shorrock having been taken ill.

8th July 1943

1045 - General Sir -. Montgomery, General Officer Commanding in Chief Eighth Army inspected part of the Unit and officially welcomed the Division into the Eighth Army.

1430 - General Montgomery inspected part of the Workshop equipment.

9th July 1943

Nothing to report.

10th July 1943

All throughout last week special parties had worked continuously on the preparation of parachute containers for the Sicilian operation.

11th July 1943

Experiment carried out by Lieut. J.A. Dunlop to determine a method of fitting electrically fitted smoke generators to Willys 8 cwt. 4x4 trucks G.S.

12th to 18th July 1943

Nothing to report.

19th July 1943

Rear Party (O.i/c - Capt. G.E.H. Deadman) arrived at M'Saaken.

20th to 22nd July 1943

Nothing to report.

23rd July 1943

0800 - Major-General G.F. Hopkinson O.B.E. M.C., General Officer Commanding 1 Airborne Division spoke on the Airborne Division's role in the recent operations in Sicily.

24th to 25th July 1943

Nothing to report.

26th July 1943

0715 - One O.R. killed by accident on Regimental Training.  Court of Inquiry held.

27th to 31st July 1943

Nothing to report.