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GORDON LYALL PAVER (1913–1988) AND 42ND GEOLOGICAL SECTION, SOUTH AFRICAN ENGINEER CORPS: MILITARY GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS IN WORLD WAR II SUPPORTING BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS: PART 1, THE EAST AFRICAN CAMPAIGN 1940–1941 Available to Purchase

Edward P. F. Rose
Published: 01 May 2024
Earth Sciences History (2024) 43 (1): 176–197.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17704/1944-6187-43.1.176
...Edward P. F. Rose ABSTRACT 42nd Geological Section of the South African Engineer Corps was a unique unit that supported British armed forces during World War II. It was co-founded and led for most of the war by Gordon Lyall Paver (1913–1988), one of the few ‘British’ officers serving specifically...
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GORDON LYALL PAVER (1913–1988) AND 42ND GEOLOGICAL SECTION, SOUTH AFRICAN ENGINEER CORPS: MILITARY GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS IN WORLD WAR II SUPPORTING BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS: PART 2, NORTH AFRICA, THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION 1941–1945 Available to Purchase

Edward P. F. Rose
Published: 01 November 2024
Earth Sciences History (2024) 43 (2): 363–403.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17704/1944-6187-43.2.363
...Edward P. F. Rose ABSTRACT In September 1940, 42nd Geological Section of the South African Engineer Corps moved from Kenya to an operational base near Cairo in Egypt, continuing to serve within the British Army’s Middle East Command but with leadership by the newly-promoted Major Gordon Lyall Paver...
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Emblem adopted by 42nd Geological Section, South African Engineer Corps. From emblems illustrated on the dust cover of ‘Salute the Sappers’ (Orpen with Martin 1981), published by the Sappers Association, Johannesburg, which became the Sappers Foundation in 1998 and whose ‘successor in title’ became the Sappers Memorial Trust in 2022.

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Figure 1. Emblem adopted by 42nd Geological Section, South African Engineer Corps. From emblems illustrated on the dust cover of ‘Salute the Sappers’ ( Orpen with Martin 1981 ), published by the Sappers Association, Johannesburg, which became the Sappers Foundation in 1998 and whose ‘successor
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Establishment of 42nd Geological Section, South African Engineer Corps, as at 21 September 1943—three years after first operational deployment, in September 1940. From Rose (2012), courtesy of the Geological Society of London.

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Figure 2. Establishment of 42nd Geological Section, South African Engineer Corps, as at 21 September 1943—three years after first operational deployment, in September 1940. From Rose ( 2012 ), courtesy of the Geological Society of London.
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BRITISH MILITARY CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE GEOLOGY OF MALTA, PART 2: THE SECOND WORLD WAR, 1939–1945 Available to Purchase

Edward P.F. Rose
Published: 01 April 2022
Earth Sciences History (2022) 41 (1): 186–216.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17704/1944-6187-41.1.186
...–1965) and by geologists Captain Frederick William Shotton (1906–1990) and Major Gordon Lyall Paver (1913–1988). In 1944, it was guided by geologist Captain Howard Digby Roberts (1913–1971), leading a detachment from 42nd Geological Section of the South African Engineer Corps that pioneered earth...
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Geological map of Cyprus with location of military boreholes drilled during World War II, compiled by 42nd Geological Section of the South African Engineer Corps, distinguishing boreholes drilled by government agencies from those drilled by Royal Engineers or by South African Engineer Corps units. From Paver (1947b).

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Published: 01 November 2024
Figure 17. Geological map of Cyprus with location of military boreholes drilled during World War II, compiled by 42nd Geological Section of the South African Engineer Corps, distinguishing boreholes drilled by government agencies from those drilled by Royal Engineers or by South African Engineer
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Part of a Geological Map of Cyprus. Scale 4 miles: 1 inch, 1:253,440. Published by 42nd Geological Section, South African Engineer Corps, General Headquarters, Middle East Forces, 1946.

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Published: 01 April 2023
Figure 5. Part of a Geological Map of Cyprus. Scale 4 miles: 1 inch, 1:253,440. Published by 42nd Geological Section, South African Engineer Corps, General Headquarters, Middle East Forces, 1946.
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Summary of activities by numbers 1, 3, 5 and 6 Boring Sections Royal Engineers, 36th Water Supply Company of the South African Engineer Corps, and part of No. 1 Australian Boring Section, for the British Army’s Middle East Command, from 1940 to August 1942. (Burg El Arab is a city located about 52 kilometres south-west of Alexandria—cf. Figure 1—and some seven kilometres from the Mediterranean coast.) From Rose (2012a), courtesy of the Geological Society of London.

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Published: 01 November 2024
Figure 6. Summary of activities by numbers 1, 3, 5 and 6 Boring Sections Royal Engineers, 36th Water Supply Company of the South African Engineer Corps, and part of No. 1 Australian Boring Section, for the British Army’s Middle East Command, from 1940 to August 1942. (Burg El Arab is a city
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Geophysical survey of Nicosia airfield (indicated by a concentration of boreholes due south from Kyrenia on the northern coast of Cyprus on Figure 17): iso-resistivity plan for depth of 42 metres (diagram 1) plus representative traverse showing electrical earth resistivity curves plus logs for two boreholes and shading to indicate the likely occurrence of coarse-grained deposits (diagram 2), compiled by 42nd Geological Section, South African Engineer Corps. From Paver (1947b).

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Published: 01 November 2024
plus logs for two boreholes and shading to indicate the likely occurrence of coarse-grained deposits (diagram 2), compiled by 42nd Geological Section, South African Engineer Corps. From Paver ( 1947b ).
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Typical resistivity curves for Malta. The legend (bottom right corner) indicates productive and non-productive boreholes, numbered as for Figures 5 and 6; standing water level; depth at which water was ‘struck’ in the bore; and lithologies as for Figures 4 and 6. Drawn by 42nd Geological Section, South African Engineer Corps. From an unpublished report by Paver (circa 1945), courtesy of the Lapworth Museum of Geology.

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Published: 01 April 2022
Geological Section, South African Engineer Corps. From an unpublished report by Paver (circa 1945 ), courtesy of the Lapworth Museum of Geology.
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Hydrogeological (‘hydrological’) map of Malta, original at scale of half inch to one mile (1:126,720), showing positions of productive boreholes (numbered on white background) and non-productive boreholes (numbered on black background) drilled by No. 3 Boring Section Royal Engineers in 1943; positions of existing water supplies (derived from the Upper Water Table and the Main Water Table); and the island divided into five areas differing in their groundwater prospects. Drawn by 42nd Geological Section, South African Engineer Corps. From an unpublished report by Paver (circa 1945), courtesy of the Lapworth Museum of Geology.

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Published: 01 April 2022
in 1943; positions of existing water supplies (derived from the Upper Water Table and the Main Water Table); and the island divided into five areas differing in their groundwater prospects. Drawn by 42 nd Geological Section, South African Engineer Corps. From an unpublished report by Paver (circa 1945
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Geological cross-sections across Malta, along the lines of section A—B, M—N, and X—Y—Z and depicting the lithostratigraphic units shown on Figure 4, indicating the position of the Main Water Table and the positions of productive boreholes (numbered on white background) and non-productive boreholes (numbered on black background) drilled by No. 3 Boring Section Royal Engineers in 1943. The level at which groundwater was ‘struck’ is indicated, where appropriate. Drawn by 42nd Geological Section, South African Engineer Corps. From an unpublished report by Paver (circa 1945), courtesy of the Lapworth Museum of Geology.

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Published: 01 April 2022
-productive boreholes (numbered on black background) drilled by No. 3 Boring Section Royal Engineers in 1943. The level at which groundwater was ‘struck’ is indicated, where appropriate. Drawn by 42 nd Geological Section, South African Engineer Corps. From an unpublished report by Paver (circa 1945
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Map showing positions of British military infiltration galleries constructed near the coast westwards from Alexandria in Egypt to Sirte in Libya, with lines of longitude. From an unpublished report ‘Boreholes for water in Malta’ by Major G. L. Paver, South African Engineer Corps, Officer Commanding 42nd Geological Section SAEC (in post as Acting Staff Officer [Geologist], Deputy Director Works [Electrical &amp; Mechanical], General Headquarters Middle East, following Shotton's recall to the UK in September 1943). Later published by Addison &amp; Shotton (1946), and therefore presumed to be originally their work while militarily employed. Courtesy of the Lapworth Museum.

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Fig. 2 Map showing positions of British military infiltration galleries constructed near the coast westwards from Alexandria in Egypt to Sirte in Libya, with lines of longitude. From an unpublished report ‘Boreholes for water in Malta’ by Major G. L. Paver, South African Engineer Corps, Officer
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MILITARY GEOLOGY: AN AMERICAN TERM OF WORLD WAR I RE-DEFINED FOR THE BRITISH ARMY AT THE END OF WORLD WAR II Available to Purchase

EDWARD P. F. ROSE
Published: 01 December 2023
Earth Sciences History (2023) 42 (2): 291–326.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17704/1944-6187-42.2.291
... at the meeting) to deploy his unit, 42nd Geological Section of the South African Engineer Corps, to the South East Asia Command area. Members of the Section had not yet served in this theatre of operations, so there was apparently a need for Paver to visit Europe in order to help the senior British planning...
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LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT Available to Purchase

Published: 01 May 2024
Earth Sciences History (2024) 43 (1): i–iv.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17704/1944-6187-43.1.i
... the career of Gordon Lyall Paver, an officer in the 42nd Geological Section of the South African Engineer Corps during World War II. He served at various posts in East Africa where his charge was to identify sources of potable groundwater for the British Army. Electrical earth resistivity surveying...
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LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT Available to Purchase

Published: 01 November 2024
Earth Sciences History (2024) 43 (2): i–iv.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17704/1944-6187-43.2.i
... Paver (1913–1988) during World War II. Paver was an officer in the 42nd Geological Section of the South African Engineer Corps which in 1940 moved from Kenya to a base near Cairo in Egypt. An important task that he was responsible for was prospecting for groundwater resources using electrical earth...
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PROMOTING MILITARY GEOLOGY FOR 200 YEARS: SENIOR GEOLOGISTS OF THE BRITISH ARMY 1826 TO 2026 Available to Purchase

Edward P. F. Rose
Published: 01 April 2023
Earth Sciences History (2023) 42 (1): 1–40.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17704/1944-6187-42.1.1
...Figure 5. Part of a Geological Map of Cyprus. Scale 4 miles: 1 inch, 1:253,440. Published by 42nd Geological Section, South African Engineer Corps, General Headquarters, Middle East Forces, 1946. ...
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Fred Shotton: a ‘hero’ of military applications of geology during World War II Available to Purchase

E.P.F. Rose, J.C. Clatworthy
Published: 01 May 2008
Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology (2008) 41 (2): 171–188.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1144/1470-9236/07-034
...Fig. 2 Map showing positions of British military infiltration galleries constructed near the coast westwards from Alexandria in Egypt to Sirte in Libya, with lines of longitude. From an unpublished report ‘Boreholes for water in Malta’ by Major G. L. Paver, South African Engineer Corps, Officer...
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CANADIAN LINKS WITH BRITISH MILITARY GEOLOGY 1814 TO 1945 Available to Purchase

Edward P. F. Rose
Published: 01 April 2021
Earth Sciences History (2021) 40 (1): 130–157.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17704/1944-6187-40.1.130
... well drilling by means of geophysical surveys rather than to generate terrain analysis remote from the battlefield: 42 nd Geological Section, South African Engineer Corps ( Rose 2018 a). Thus, although there are links between the development of military applications of geology by the British Army...
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A trans-Iapetus transform fault control for the evolution of the Rheic Ocean: Implications for an early Paleozoic transition of accretionary tectonics: Comment Open Access

Patrick J. Barosh
Journal: GSA Bulletin
Published: 14 March 2024
GSA Bulletin (2024) 136 (9-10): 4411–4414.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1130/B37106.1
... United States and seismic zoning of the Atlantic seaboard and Appalachian regions: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Waterways Experiment Station, State-of-the-art for addressing earthquake hazards in the United States, Report 21, Miscellaneous Paper S-73-1 , 302 p. Barosh , P.J. , 1986b...
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