page_title: Dorsetshire and Wiltshire Fortress Royal Engineers
section_title: Memorials
hierarchical_section_title: Dorsetshire and Wiltshire Fortress Royal Engineers / Memorials
caption_attribution_description: en:Great Western Railway War Memorial, en:Charles Sargeant Jagger, 1922
context_page_description: The Dorsetshire & Wiltshire Fortress Royal Engineers was a part-time unit of Britain's Royal Engineers formed in 1908. It helped to defend the naval base of Portland Harbour during World War I and provided a detachment to serve with the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front. Between the World Wars the unit took on the additional role of anti-aircraft searchlight defence and during World War II it was expanded into a full searchlight regiment that served during the Plymouth Blitz.
context_section_description: The men of the Great Western Railway who died on service (including those with 565th (Wiltshire) Company, RE) are commemorated by the Great Western Railway War Memorial at Paddington Station, and at individual railway locations, such as the Swindon Locomotive Shed.
caption: GWR War Memorial on Platform 1 at Paddington.
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