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Royal Engineers

The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually called the Royal Engineers (RE), and commonly known as the Sappers, is the engineering arm of the British Army. It provides military engineering and other technical support to the British Armed Forces and is headed by the Chief Royal Engineer. The Corps Headquarters and the Royal School of Military Engineering are in Chatham in Kent, England. The corps is divided into several regiments, barracked at various places in the United Kingdom and around the world.

Not to be confused with Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.

Corps of Royal Engineers

1716–present

 United Kingdom

 British Army

22 Regiments

Commander Field Army

Chatham, Kent

Ubique and Quo Fas et Gloria Ducunt ("Everywhere" and "Where Right And Glory Lead"; in Latin fas implies "sacred duty")[1]

Wings (Quick march)

www.army.mod.uk/who-we-are/corps-regiments-and-units/corps-of-royal-engineers/

The King

Lieutenant General Sir Christopher Tickell

Colonel Richard Hawkins

Regimental museum[edit]

The Royal Engineers Museum is in Gillingham in Kent.[19]

1839 – Canada-United States

1858 – Canada-United States (Captain (later General Sir) John Hawkins RE)

1856 and 1857 – Russo-Turkish (Lieutenant Colonel (later Sir) RE)

Edward Stanton

1857 – Russo-Turkish (Colonel (later Field Marshal Sir) RE)

Lintorn Simmons

1878 – Bulgarian

1880 – Græco-Turkish (Major (later Major General Sir) John Ardagh RE)

1884 – Russo-Afghan (Captain (later Colonel Sir) RE)

Thomas Holdich

1894 – India-Afghanistan (Captain (later Colonel Sir) Thomas Holdich RE)

1902 – Chile-Argentine (Colonel Sir Delme Radcliffe RE)

1911 – Peru-Bolivia (Major A. J. Woodroffe RE)

Royal School of Military Engineering

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28 Training Squadron, Army Training Regiment

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Diving Training Unit (Army), (DTU(A))

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Band of the Corps of Royal Engineers (The band are part of the )[42]

Royal Corps of Army Music

The Royal School of Military Engineering (RSME) is the British Army's Centre of Excellence for Military Engineering, Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD), and counter terrorist search training. Located on several sites in Chatham, Kent, Camberley in Surrey and Bicester in Oxfordshire the Royal School of Military Engineering offers training facilities for the full range of Royal Engineer skills. The RSME was founded by Major (later General Sir) Charles Pasley, as the Royal Engineer Establishment in 1812.[36] It was renamed the School of Military Engineering in 1868 and granted the "Royal" prefix in 1962.[37]

By fostering esprit de corps and a spirit of comradeship and service.

By maintaining an awareness of Corps traditions.

By acting as a link between serving and retired members of the Corps.

To provide financial and other assistance to serving and former members of the Corps, their wives, widows and dependants who are in need through poverty.

To make grants, within Association guidelines, to the Army Benevolent Fund and to other charities which further the objectives of the Association.

The present Royal Engineers Association promotes and supports the Corps among members of the Association in the following ways:[50][47]

(RFC) 1912 - Air Battalion Royal Engineers (formed 1911) was the precursor of the Royal Flying Corps which evolved into the Royal Air Force in 1918.[11]

Royal Flying Corps

(R Sigs) 1920 -The Telegraph Troop, founded in 1870,[62]: 121  became the Telegraph Battalion Royal Engineers who then became the Royal Engineers Signals Service, which in turn became the independent Royal Corps of Signals in 1920.[63]

Royal Corps of Signals

(REME) 1942 - When REME was created in 1942, it was formed from personnel previously in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, the Royal Army Service Corps, Royal Signals and Royal Engineers.[64] After the war, the responsibilities of REME were increased in stages so that, by 1968, it had taken over responsibility for the maintenance of all Royal Engineers equipment, except construction equipment.[65]

Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

(RCT) 1965 - The Royal Engineers were responsible for railway and inland waterway transport, port operations and movement control until 1965, when these functions were transferred to the new Royal Corps of Transport. (See also Railway Operating Division.)[66] The Royal Corps of Transport merged into the Royal Logistic Corps in 1993.[67]

Royal Corps of Transport

(RLC) 1993 - In 1913, the Army Post Office Corps (formed in 1882) and the Royal Engineers Telegraph Reserve (formed in 1884) amalgamated to form the Royal Engineers (Postal Section) Special Reserve. In 1959 it was restyled Royal Engineers (Postal and Courier Communications) and added to the regular cadre of the British Army, it was renamed Royal Engineers (Postal and Courier Services) in 1979. On 1 August 1988 the IRA bombed an accommodation block at the Postal & Courier Depot, Inglis Barracks, Mill Hill, London killing one lance corporal and injuring nine soldiers.[68][69] The RE (PCS) became a Defence Agency known as the Defence Postal and Courier Service in 1992 and in the same year Postal & Courier trained operators of the Women's Royal Army Corps (WRAC) were re-cap badged as Royal Engineers. The Service was transferred to the Royal Logistic Corps on its formation in 1993. – see (British Forces Post Office).[70]

Royal Logistic Corps

Several Corps have been formed from the Royal Engineers.

Category:Royal Engineers soldiers

Category:Royal Engineers officers

Decorations[edit]

Victoria Cross[edit]

The following Royal Engineers have been awarded the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.[71]

Rivalry[edit]

The Royal Engineers have a traditional rivalry with the Royal Artillery (the Gunners).[74]

Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

Royal Engineers, Columbia Detachment

a territorial unit that replaced the Regular Army RE companies of the Bermuda Garrison in 1930. Disbanded 1946.

Bermuda Volunteer Engineers

created in 1903 to provide a replacement for the RE in Canada

Canadian Military Engineers

List of international professional associations

The Association of British Columbia Land Surveyors

Institution of Engineers

AVRE

List of roles in the British Army

Boothby, Charles (2011). With the Royal Engineers in the Peninsula & France. Leonaur.  978-0-85706-781-4.

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Brazier, C. C. H. (2004). XD Operations. Secret British Missions Denying Oil to the Nazis. Pen and Sword.  1-84415-136-0.

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Boyd, Derek (1975). Royal Engineers. Cooper.  0-85052-197-1.

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Connolly, Thomas William John (1857). The History of the Corps of Royal Sappers and Miners: From the Formation of the Corps in March 1772, to the Date when Its Designation was Changed to that of Royal Engineers, in October 1856. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.

Cooper, George (2011). Fight, Dig and Live. The Story of the Royal Engineers in the Korean War. Pen and Sword.  978-1-84884-684-5.

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Daniell, A. P. de T. (2000). Mediterranean Safari March 1943 – October 1944. Orphans Press.  0-7212-0816-9.

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Duke, Sir Gerald (1982). The History of the Royal Engineer Yacht Club. Pitman Press.  0-946403-00-7.

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Durie, William (2012). . Berlin: Vergangenheitsverlag (de). ISBN 978-3-86408-068-5. OCLC 978161722.

The British Garrison Berlin 1945–1994: nowhere to go ... a pictorial historiography of the British Military occupation / presence in Berlin

Edwards, Colonel G. F. The History of Central Volunteer Headquarters Royal Engineers. Institution of Royal Engineers.

Eke, Richard (1997). A Game of Soldiers. Digaprint.  0-9534264-0-8.

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Emden, Richard Van (2009). Sapper Martin, The Secret War Diary of Jack Martin. Bloomsbury.  978-1-4088-0311-0.

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Evans, J.; Palmer, E.; Walter, R. (2000). A Harbour Goes to War. The story of the Mulberry and the men who made it happen. Brook House.  1-873547-30-7.

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Gander, Terry (1985). The Royal Engineers. I. Allan.  0-7110-1517-1.

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Garson, Yvonne (1992). Versatile Genius: The Royal Engineers and Their Maps: Manuscript Maps and Plans of the Eastern Frontier, 1822–1870. University of the Witwatersrand Library.  1-86838-023-8.

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Hall, Lieutenant Colonel L. J. (1919). Inland Water Transport in Mesopotamia. Naval & Military Press.  1-84342-952-7.

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Hall, Malcom (2010). From Ballon to Boxkite. The Royal Engineers and Early British Aeronautics. Amberley Press.  978-1-84868-992-3.

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Hartcup, Guy (2006). Code Name Mulberry. The Planning – Building & Operation of the Normandy Harbours. Pen and Sword.  1-84415-434-3.

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Head, Francis Bond (1869). The Royal Engineer. John Murray.

Hogben, Major Arthur (1987). Designed to Kill. Bomb Disposal from World War I to the Falklands. Patrick Stevens.  0-85059-865-6.

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Hudson, S. A. M. (2010). UXB Malta. Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal 1940–44. The History Press.  978-0-7524-5635-5.

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Hunt, H. J. (1986). Bombs & Booby Traps. Romsey Medal Centre.  978-0948251191.

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Macintosh, Hugh (2000). Middle East Movers, Royal Engineers Transportation in the Suez Canal Zone 1947–1956. North Kent Books.  0-948305-10-X.

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Mortimer, Gerald (1993). Never a Shot in Anger. Square One Publications.  1-872017-71-1.

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Napier, Gerald (2005). Follow the Sapper: An Illustrated History of the Corps of Royal Engineers. The Institution of Royal Engineers.  0-903530-26-0.

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Owen, James (2010). Danger UXB. The Heroic Story of the WWII Bomb Disposal Teams. Little, Brown.  978-1-4087-0195-9.

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Porter, Whitworth; Watson, Charles Moore (1889). History of the Corps of Royal Engineers. Longmans, Green.

Raschen, Dan (1987). Send Port & Pyjamas!. Buckland Publications.  0-7212-0763-4.

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Raschen, Dan (1983). Wrong Again Dan! Karachi to Krakatoa. Buckland Publications.  0-7212-0638-7.

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Robinson, P.; Cave, N. (2011). The Underground War. Vimy Ridge to Arras. Pen and Sword.  978-1-84415-976-5.

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Salmon, M. J. Oh! To be a Sapper. The Institution of Royal Engineers.  0-9524911-4-1.

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Sandes, Edward Warren Caulfeild (1937). The Royal Engineers in Egypt and the Sudan. Institution of Royal Engineers.

Sliz, John (2013). Commander Royal Engineers. The Headquarters of the Royal Engineers at Arnhem. Travelouge 219.  978-1-927679-04-3.

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Smithers, A. J. (1991). Honourable Conquests: An Account of the Enduring Work of the Royal Engineers Throughout the Empire. Pen & Sword.  978-0-85052-725-4.

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Steadman, Peter (2001). Platoon Commander (Memoirs of a Royal Engineers Officer). Pentlandite Books.  1-85821-901-9.

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Tinsley, Terence (1992). Stick & String. Buckland Publishing.  0-7212-0897-5.

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Turner, John Frayn (1967). Highly Explosive, The Exploits of Major Bill Hartley MBE GM late of Bomb Disposal. George G. Harappa & Co.

Wakeling, Eric (1994). The Lonely War. A story of Bomb Disposal in World War II by on who was there. Square One Publication.  1-872017-84-3.

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Walker, Eric. Don't Annoy The Enemy. Gernsey Press Co.

Watkins, Leonard (1996). A Sapper's War. Minerva Press.  1-85863-715-5.

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Williams, Gerard; Williams, Michael (1969). Citizen Soldiers of the Royal Engineers Transportation and Movements and the Royal Army Service Corps, 1859 to 1965. Institution of the Royal Corps of Transport.

Wolfe, Celia (1997). Summon up the Blood. The war diary of Corporal J A Womack, Royal Engineers. Leo Cooper.  978-0-85052-537-3.

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(2004). Blowing Our Bridges. A Memoir from Dunkirk to Korea via Normandy. Pen and Sword. ISBN 1-84415-051-8.

Younger, Major General Tony

by Locock and Tyndale.

Drainage Manual – Revised Edition, 1907

Papers on Subjects Connected with the Duties of the Corps of Royal Engineers, by Great Britain Army. Royal Engineers. Published by The Corps, 1874.

Professional Papers of the Corps of Royal Engineers, by Great Britain Army. Royal Engineers, Royal Engineers' Institute (Great Britain). Published by Royal Engineer Institute, 1892.

A Short History of the Royal Engineers, by The Institution of Royal Engineers. Published by The Institution of Royal Engineers, 2006.  0-903530-28-7.

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Official website

Institution of Royal Engineers

Royal Engineers – Continuous Professional Development

Royal Engineers Association

Royal Engineers Museum, Library and Archive

Royal Engineers Band

The Royal Engineers in Halifax: Photographing the Garrison City, 1870–1885

Airborne Engineers Association

Calling all Royal Engineers

Royal Engineers Companies 1944 - 1945 at www.BritishMilitaryHistory.co.uk