Lt.Gen F. J. Hickling AO.CSC
President:
Garry Sutcliffe
loosepizzle@bigpond.com
Ph: 0-7-4684 3229
Mob: 0400 716 032
Vice-President:
P. Cullen Hart
ratshart@bigpond.net.au
Ph: 0-2-4390 4141
Mob: 0411 300 120
Hon: Secretary:
Barry E. Kelly
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Ph: 0-7-4661 2898
Fax: 0-7-4661 2898
Mob: 0417.740.282
Hon: Treasurer:
Robin Farrell
rfarrell1@bigpond.com
Committee Members:
Mr. Robert (Bob) Cubitt
Mr. George Hulse
Mr. John Robertson
(Web Master)
We are a mixed bag of ex-Royal Australian Engineers Sappers who have at one time or another, passed through the (Steele Barracks) gates of the School of Military Engineering (SME) Casula, outside Liverpool, N.S.W. ‘Former Home of the Sapper’. Following recruit training and being posted to the Corps of Engineers, this is where our lives were changed and lifelong friendships made. 1 Field Squadron RAE is where many of us were posted following basic field engineering, (FE3) it was a posting that pulled us all together as one. Whether we went on to active service in Malaya, Borneo, South Vietnam or some other country or place, whether you trained as a standard engineer, mini/splinter/combat team, plant operator, carpenter, plumber, shipwright, workshops mechanic, tunnel rat, dog handler, mine clearing or land clearing specialists, or any of the one thousand tasks you were given, we were uniquely all one, no matter what your trade entailed, we were all - Sappers… ‘Our Corps motto is Ubique.’
HU-1 'Huey' Chopper
The committee of Sapper veterans was formed in 1997. We are a group of ‘volunteers’ who work behind the scenes and prepare for the Squadron Reunion’s every two years at suitable locations, to remember those who did not come home. We incorporated in the State of Queensland in 2005. Our last reunion was at Twin Towns and Club Banora in August of 2007. Due to a ‘tremendous response’, by those present, we will have our next ‘Sapper Reunion’ also at Twin Towns Services Club and Club Banora, on the 28th, 29, & 30th August 2009.
