THE BRITISH ARMY IN THE TUNISIA CAMPAIGN, NOVEMBER 1942-MAY 1943 - Engineers of the 1256th Field Company RE building a dam of sandbags to divert the course of the river whilst piping is placed in position during the construction of the road near Beja, 29 December 1942. Supply lines are an obvious essential in any large scale attack and the use of the roads is imperative for the transport of munitions and supplies to the roads in forward area were mainly bad and since the majority of transport had to move by night without lights, the maintenance of supplies was a tedious and difficult
THE BRITISH ARMY IN THE TUNISIA CAMPAIGN, NOVEMBER 1942-MAY 1943 - Engineers of the 1256th Field Company RE building a dam of sandbags to divert the course of the river whilst piping is placed in position during the construction of the road near Beja, 29 December 1942. Supply lines are an obvious essential in any large scale attack and the use of the roads is imperative for the transport of munitions and supplies to the roads in forward area were mainly bad and since the majority of transport had to move by night without lights, the maintenance of supplies was a tedious and difficult key points, particularly bridges were so narrow that they compelled one way traffic; it was therefore desirable that wherever possible, alternatives to these bottlenecks should be constructed. A particuarly interesting feature of this type of work was that the job couldn't always be completed by one of the units that started it. As in this case, the work was started by the 1256th Field Company RE on 29 December 1942 who handed it over to the 1st Parachute Squadron RE on 4 January 1943. After three days the parachutists had to move to another site, so on 7 January they handed the job over to the 237th Field Company RE who were left to finish the work, British Army, British Army, 1st Army, British Army, Royal Engineers
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