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AVRE Fascine
Having looked back through all my entries I noticed that some of the funnies I’ve done have not been accompanied by the historic reference photos/information, so I thought I’d make amends.
First up the AVRE Fascine, well to be correct it is just the fascine. These were bundles of branches gathered together into larger ones that were either collected into one large fascine wrapped in wire cables, or wrapped around pipes so that they could be laid in wet gaps and allow water to flow through them. They were used on the front of a general purpose AVRE sat on a disposable timber frame, sat on the front of Churchill Arks, or smaller versions mounted on Bridge laying AVREs so that they could be used to deal with any awkward differences in bank heights. Apart from the smaller ones (that would be manhandled in place) they would be dropped in place my firing small demolition charges to cut the retaining cables allowing gravity to drop it in place.
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