Reginald Kenneth Probst

Reg was the son of Johann Probst who left Bavaria in 1892 to escape a court martial and became a British citizen in 1920.

Born in Willesden, Middlesex he married Margaret Robinson in Kingsbury in 1941.

Reg worked for General Electric Company in the Engineers Department prior to 1938 and then joined the Admiralty as a Draughtsman in the Civil Engineering Department. He spent a lot of the war traveling around the country overseeing various projects such as Navy stores at Fishguard, a bombing range in the Bristol Channel in an area near the village of Treligga, Cornwall, Deer Hill near Salisbury where the construction of tunnels for storing Naval mines was being undertaken. Later he joined the airfield section and went out on land surveys for the construction of new airfields for carrier based aircraft such as at Inskip near Preston, Lancashire. He was also organising the embarkation hards from Southampton and Hastings. The army designers asked him for advice on the newly designed Mulberry temporary portable harbours to be used on D-Day.