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Defence Secretary John Healey travelled to Merville Barracks in Colchester to visit troops who will be on duty over Christmas. Mr Healey spoke to soldiers from 11 Explosive Ordnance Disposal and Search Regiment. The Defence Secretary got a demonstration of Read More …
Ask yourself, what is the purpose of any army? – of course, it is to protect the United Kingdom by being ready to fight and win wars on land. So, protect is the common weft weaving its way through the Read More …
Rapper and TV personality Big Narstie has visited Army bomb disposal experts, the ‘Kaboom Squad’. He spoke to Colchester Troop, 621 EOD Squadron, 11 Explosive Ordnance Disposal and Search Regiment Royal Logistic Corps at Merville Barracks to find out more Read More …
The dummy device, constructed by 2 Dstl apprentices, will support educational outreach activity at the recently-opened museum at Worthy Down near Winchester. The Royal Logistic Corps (RLC) incorporates the Army’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal regiments whose bomb disposal experts are called Read More …
A new multi-million-pound museum telling the story of the Royal Logistic Corps (RLC) has opened to the public. The RLC Museum is now open at Worthy Down Camp, near Winchester, Hampshire. “We really get the Army, we sustain the British Read More …
A new museum dedicated to the Royal Logistic Corps (RLC) will open its doors to the public for the first time this month. The Royal Logistic Corps Museum has relocated within Winchester, Hampshire, moving from Deepcut to Worthy Down, outside Read More …
The Royal Navy’s HMS Forth has taken bomb disposal specialists to South Georgia as part of a mission to protect the island’s wildlife. The ten-day environmental mission set out to remove bombs and ordnance left behind during the Falkland Islands Read More …
Bomb disposal units have been repeatedly called out to the Essex coast after several suspected ordnances were found. Between February 27 and March 1, HM Coastguard in Southend-on-Sea were called to areas along the coastline after several devices, believed to Read More …
Properties in Exeter are being assessed for structural damage after the controlled detonation of a World War Two bomb. A structural engineer said doors and windows of nearby houses had been “blown through” by the blast. Hundreds of people evacuated Read More …
A suspected second world war bomb discovered in Exeter will be detonated, police have confirmed. Thousands of people were evacuated from their homes in the city while authorities investigated the device, according to police. A 400-metre (1,300-ft) cordon was in Read More …
David Timmins was a member of Explosive Device Disposal Team 5, The Royal Logistics Corps – celebrated as ‘The Famous Five’ for their successful record at dismantling deadly devices planted by the Taliban. In 2009 he was critically injured by Read More …
The bomb squad was scrambled to the north-east nearly 40 times in three years, new figures show. Figures obtained by the Evening Express under Freedom of Information legislation reveal explosive device experts came to the area to dispose of devices Read More …