Ejemplos de uso de Pioneer Corps
1. He had volunteered on the outbreak of the Second World War for the Pioneer Corps, probably the humblest unit in the British Army.
2. We got our billets in bits of farm steadings, if you could call them that, then we got to work digging trenches under the supervision of the Pioneer Corps.
3. They were singing like mad as the bombers were still coming over." William Heard, conscientious objector imprisoned in Feltham borstal: "There were quite a few people who committed crimes in order to end up in prison rather than serve in the armed forces." Private Herbert Anderson, Pioneer Corps: "I remember specially a big factory that had been bombed – Hartley‘s which was quite well known as makers of marmalade and jam.
4. But just a year later he was arrested again, this time by the British police, and interned in Australia for being an "enemy alien". Despite this British "mistake", as he calls it, in 1'41 he volunteered to return to England and serve in the Pioneer Corps during World War Two, eventually becoming one of the first Jewish sergeants in the 8th Hussars of the Royal Armoured Corps.