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501st (Wessex) Field Company
(formerly the 1/2
nd Wessex Field Company)
Royal Engineers

Major Headquarters

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Date

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27th Division

Winchester

16 Nov 1914

27th Division

Embarked at Southampton

19 Dec 1914

France and Flanders

27th Division

Landed at Le Havre

20 Dec 1914

27th Division

Vicinity of Aire & Arques

25 Dec 1914

27th Division

Near St. Eloi

14-15 Mar 1915

27th Division

Ypres

22 Apr – 25 May 1915

27th Division

Gravenstafel

22-23 Apr 1915

27th Division

St. Julien

24 Apr – 4 May 1915

27th Division

Frezenberg

8-13 May 1915

27th Division

Bellewaarde

24-25 May 1915

27th Division

Marseilles

29 Nov 1915

Macedonia

27th Division

Arrived at Salonika

Dec 1915

27th Division

Struma

30 Sep – 4 Oct 1916

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Homondos

14 Oct 1917

27th Division

Doiran

18-19 Sep 1918

27th Division

Krupnik

30 Oct 1918

27th Division

Orlyak

2 Nov 1918

27th Division

Embarked for the Black Sea

Dec 1918

27th Division

Disembarked at Constantinople

19 Dec 1918

27th Division

Disbanded

24 Sep 1919

REFERENCE:

  1. Battle Honours of the Royal Engineers. The Royal Engineers Journal. The Institution of Royal Engineers, Chatham, Kent, 1925-1932.
  2. BECKE, A.F. History of the Great War. Order of Battle of Division. Part 1-The Regular British Divisions. The Sherwood Press, Nottingham (Reprint of 1934 edition).