Royal Engineers
Corps of Royal Engineers | |
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Chatham, Kent | |
Motto(s) | Ubique and Quo Fas et Gloria Ducunt ("Everywhere" and "Where Right And Glory Lead"; in Latin fas implies "sacred duty")[1] |
March | Wings (Quick march) |
Website | www |
Commanders | |
Colonel-in-Chief | The King |
Chief Royal Engineer | Lieutenant General Sir Christopher Tickell |
Corps Colonel | Colonel Richard Hawkins |
Insignia | |
Tactical recognition flash |
Arms of the British Army |
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Combat Arms |
Combat Support Arms |
Combat Services |
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The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually called the Royal Engineers (RE), and commonly known as the
History
The Royal Engineers trace their origins back to the military engineers brought to England by William the Conqueror, specifically Bishop Gundulf of Rochester Cathedral, and claim over 900 years of unbroken service to the crown. Engineers have always served in the armies of the Crown; however, the origins of the modern corps, along with those of the Royal Artillery, lie in the Board of Ordnance established in the 15th century.[2]
In
The Corps has no battle honours. In 1832, the regimental motto, Ubique & Quo Fas Et Gloria Ducunt ("Everywhere" & "Where Right And Glory Lead"; in Latin fas implies "sacred duty") was granted.[1] The motto signified that the Corps had seen action in all the major conflicts of the British Army and almost all of the minor ones as well.[3][4]
In 1855, the Board of Ordnance was abolished, and authority over the Royal Engineers, Royal Sappers and Miners and Royal Artillery was transferred to the Commander-in-Chief of the Forces, thus uniting them with the rest of the Army. The following year, the Royal Engineers and Royal Sappers and Miners became a unified corps as the Corps of Royal Engineers, and their headquarters were moved from the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, to Chatham, Kent.[2]
The re-organisation of the British military that began in the mid-Nineteenth Century and stretched over several decades included the reconstitution of the
Units from the Royal Engineers and Royal Artillery were in Australia, even after Federation.[10]
In 1911 the Corps formed its Air Battalion, the first flying unit of the British Armed Forces. The Air Battalion was the forerunner of the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force.[11]
The
In 1915, in response to
Before the
During the 1980s, the Royal Engineers formed the vital component of at least three Engineer Brigades:
Regimental museum
The Royal Engineers Museum is in Gillingham in Kent.[19]
Major projects
British Columbia
The
Royal Albert Hall
The
Indian infrastructure
Much of the British colonial era infrastructure of India, of which elements survive today, was created by engineers of the three presidencies' armies and the Royal Engineers. Lieutenant (later General Sir)
Other irrigation and canal projects included the Ganges Canal, where Colonel Sir Colin Scott-Moncrieff (1836–1916) acted as the Chief Engineer and made modifications to the original work. Among other engineers trained in India, Scott-Moncrieff went on to become Under Secretary of State Public Works, Egypt where he restored the Nile barrage and irrigation works of Lower Egypt.[25]
Rideau Canal
The construction of the
Dover's Western Heights
The
"... the new barracks. ... are little more than 300 yards horizontally from the beach. ... and about 180 feet (55 m) above high-water mark, but in order to communicate with them from the centre of town, on horseback the distance is nearly a mile and a half and to walk it about three-quarters of a mile, and all the roads unavoidably pass over ground more than 100 feet (30 m) above the barracks, besides the footpaths are so steep and chalky that a number of accidents will unavoidably happen during the wet weather and more especially after floods. I am therefore induced to recommend the construction of a shaft, with a triple staircase ... the chief objective of which is the convenience and safety of troops ... and may eventually be useful in sending reinforcements to troops or in affording them a secure retreat."[27]
Twiss's plan was approved and building went ahead. The shaft was to be 26 feet (7.9 m) in diameter, 140 feet (43 m) deep with a 180 feet (55 m) gallery connecting the bottom of the shaft to Snargate Street, and all for under an estimated £4000. The plan entailed building two brick-lined shafts, one inside the other. In the outer would be built a triple staircase, the inner acting as a light well with "windows" cut in its outer wall to illuminate the staircases. Apparently, by March 1805 only 40 feet (12 m) of the connecting gallery was left to dig and it is probable that the project was completed by 1807.[27]
Pentonville Prison
Two Acts of Parliament allowed for the building of
Boundary Commissions
Although mapping by what became the Ordnance Survey was born out of military necessity it was soon realised that accurate maps could be also used for civil purposes. The lessons learnt from this first boundary commission were put to good use around the world where members of the Corps have determined boundaries on behalf of the British as well as foreign governments; some notable boundary commissions include:[29]
- 1839 – Canada-United States
- 1858 – Canada-United States (Captain (later General Sir) John Hawkins RE)
- 1856 and 1857 – Russo-Turkish (Lieutenant Colonel (later Sir) Edward Stanton RE)
- 1857 – Russo-Turkish (Colonel (later Field Marshal Sir) Lintorn Simmons RE)
- 1878 – Bulgarian
- 1880 – Græco-Turkish (Major (later Major General Sir) John Ardagh RE)
- 1884 – Russo-Afghan (Captain (later Colonel Sir) Thomas Holdich RE)
- 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)
Much of this work continues to this day. The reform of the voting franchise brought about by the Reform Act (1832), demanded that boundary commissions were set up. Lieutenants Dawson and Thomas Drummond (1797–1839), Royal Engineers, were employed to gather the statistical information upon which the Bill was founded, as well as determining the boundaries and districts of boroughs. It was said that the fate of numerous boroughs fell victim to the heliostat and the Drummond light, the instrument that Drummond invented whilst surveying in Ireland.[30]
Abney Level
An
H.M. Dockyards
In 1873, Captain Henry Brandreth RE was appointed Director of the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, later the
- Chatham Dockyard
Chatham, being the home of the Corps, meant that the Royal Engineers and the Dockyard had a close relationship since Captain Brandreth's appointment. At the Chatham Dockyard, Captain Thomas Mould RE designed the iron roof trusses for the covered slips, 4, 5 and 6. Slip 7 was designed by Colonel Godfrey Greene RE on his move to the Corps from the Bengal Sappers & Miners. In 1886 Major Henry Pilkington RE was appointed Superintendent of Engineering at the Dockyard, moving on to Director of Engineering at the Admiralty in 1890 and Engineer-in-Chief of Naval Loan Works, where he was responsible for the extension of all major Dockyards at home and abroad.[33]
Trades
All members of the Royal Engineers are trained combat engineers and all sappers (privates) and non-commissioned officers also have another trade. These trades include: air conditioning fitter, electrician, general fitter, plant operator mechanic, plumber, bricklayer, plasterer / painter, carpenter & joiner, fabricator, building materials technician, design draughtsman, electrical & mechanical draughtsman, geographic support technician, survey engineer, armoured engineer, driver, engineer IT, engineer logistics specialist, amphibious engineer, bomb disposal specialist, diver or search specialist.[34] They may also undertake the specialist selection and training to qualify as Commandos or Military Parachutists. Women are eligible for all Royal Engineer specialities.[35]
Units
The Royal School of Military Engineering
The
- Royal School of Military Engineering[38]
- Combat Engineer School
- Construction Engineer School
- 1 Royal School of Military Engineering Regiment, in Chatham:[39]
- 24 Training Squadron
- 36 Training Squadron
- Boat Operations
- Hackett Troop (Plant)
- Civil Engineering Wing
- Electrical and Mechanical Wing
- 1 Royal School of Military Engineering Regiment, in Chatham:[39]
- Royal Engineers Warfare Wing (Founded in 2011 and split between Brompton Barracks, Chatham and Gibraltar Barracks at Minley in Hampshire, this is the product of the amalgamation between Command Wing, where Command and Tactics were taught and Battlefield Engineering Wing, where combat engineering training was facilitated.)
- United Kingdom Mine Information and Training Centre
- Defence Explosive Munitions and Search School (formally Defence EOD School and the National Search Centre)
- 28 Training Squadron, Army Training Regiment[40]
- Diving Training Unit (Army), (DTU(A))[41]
- Band of the Corps of Royal Engineers (The band are part of the Royal Corps of Army Music)[42]
Corps' Ensign
The Royal Engineers, Ports Section, operated harbours and ports for the army and used mainly specialised vessels such as tugs and dredgers. During the Second World War the Royal Engineers' Blue Ensign was flown from the Mulberry harbours.[43]
Bishop Gundulf, Rochester and King's Engineers
Corps Band
The Band of the Corps of the Royal Engineers is the official
The Institution of Royal Engineers
The Institution of Royal Engineers, the
Royal Engineers Journal - published tri-annually and contains articles with a military engineering connection. The first Journal was published in August 1870. The idea for the publication was proposed at the Corps Meeting of May 1870 by Major R Harrison and seconded By Captain R Home, who became its first editor (The Journal eventually superseded the Professional Papers, which were started by Lieutenant WT Denison in 1837 and continued to be published until 1918).[47]
The History of the Corps of Royal Engineers is currently in its 12th volume. The first two volumes were written by Major General Whitworth Porter and published in 1889.[48]
The Sapper is published by the Royal Engineers Central Charitable Trust and is a bi-monthly magazine for all ranks.[49]
The Royal Engineers' Association
The present Royal Engineers Association promotes and supports the Corps among members of the Association in the following ways:[50][47]
- 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.
Sport
Royal Engineers' Yacht Club
The Royal Engineers' Yacht Club, which dates back to 1812, promotes the skill of watermanship in the Royal Engineers.[51]
They have entered every Fastnet Race since the second in 1926, which they won sailing IIlex.[52]
Royal Engineers Amateur Football Club
The club was founded in 1863, under the leadership of Major
Wall states that the "Sappers moved in unison" and showed the "advantages of combination over the old style of individualism".- FA Cup
The Engineers played in
Their greatest triumph was the
The Engineers' Depot Battalion won the FA Amateur Cup in 1908.[59]
On 7 November 2012, the Royal Engineers played against the Wanderers in a remake of the 1872 FA Cup Final at The Oval. Unlike the actual final, the Engineers won, and by a large margin, 7–1 being the final score.[60]
Rugby
The Army were represented in the very first international by two members of the Royal Engineers, both playing for England, Lieutenant Charles Arthur Crompton RE and Lieutenant Charles Sherrard RE.[61]
Related units
Several Corps have been formed from the Royal Engineers.
- Royal Flying Corps (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 Corps of Signals (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 Transport (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]
- British Forces Post Office).[70]
Notable personnel
Engineering equipment
Order of precedence
Decorations
Victoria Cross
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]
- Tom Edwin Adlam, 1916, Thiepval, France
- Adam Archibald, 1918, Ors, France
- Nilt Fort, India
- Mark Sever Bell, 1874, Battle of Ordashu, Ashanti (now Ghana)
- Rorke's Drift, South Africa
- Brett Mackay Cloutman, 1918, Pont-sur-Sambre, France
- Clifford Coffin, 1917, Westhoek, Belgium
- Mohmand Valley, India
- James Lennox Dawson, 1915, Hohenzollern Redoubt, France
- Robert James Thomas Digby-Jones, 1900, Ladysmith, South Africa
- St. Nazaire, France
- Sevastopol, Crimea
- Catillon, France
- Gerald Graham, 1855, Sevastopol, Crimea
- William Hackett, 1916, Givenchy, France
- Bazar Valley, Afghanistan
- Lanoe Hawker, 1915 {While serving with the RFC}
- Charles Alfred Jarvis, 1914, Jemappes, Belgium
- Hill 70, France
- William Henry Johnston, 1914, Missy, France
- Delagoa Bay Railway, South Africa
- Cecil Leonard Knox, 1918, Tugny, France
- Edward Pemberton Leach, 1879, Maidanah, Afghanistan
- Peter Leitch, 1855, Sevastopol, Crimea
- William James Lendrim, 1855, Sevastopol, Crimea
- Wilbraham Oates Lennox, 1854, Sevastopol, Crimea
- Henry MacDonald, 1855, Sevastopol, Crimea
- Messines Ridge, Belgium
- James McPhie, 1918, Aubencheul-au-Bac, France
- Neuve Chapelle, France
- John Perie, 1855, Sevastopol, Crimea
- Claud Raymond, 1945, Talaku, Burma (now Myanmar)
- John Ross, 1855, Sevastopol, Crimea
- Michael Sleavon, 1858, Jhansi, India
- Arnold Horace Santo Waters, 1918, Ors, France
- Mamund Valley, India
- Theodore Wright, 1914, Mons, Belgium
The Sapper VCs
In 1998, HMSO published an account of the 55 British and Commonwealth 'Sappers' who have been awarded the Victoria Cross. The book was written by Colonel GWA Napier, former Royal Engineers officer and a former Director of the Royal Engineers Museum. The book defines a 'Sapper' as any "member of a British or Empire military engineer corps, whatever their rank, speciality or national allegiance", and is thus not confined to Royal Engineers.[72]
Memorials
- Rochester Cathedral, Kent has major historical links with the Corps and contains many memorials including stained glass, mosaics and plaques. The cathedral hosts services on the annual Corps Memorial Weekend and is supported by the Corps on Remembrance Sunday.
- Royal Engineers First World War memorial at La Ferté-sous-Jouarre
- National Memorial Arboretum at Alrewas, Staffordshire
- The memorial to the Royal Engineers at Arromanches, the site of the Mulberry Harbours during the Second World War[73]
Rivalry
The Royal Engineers have a traditional rivalry with the Royal Artillery (the Gunners).[74]
See also
- Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
- Royal Engineers, Columbia Detachment
- Bermuda Volunteer Engineers, a territorial unit that replaced the Regular Army RE companies of the Bermuda Garrison in 1930. Disbanded 1946.
- Canadian Military Engineers, created in 1903 to provide a replacement for the RE in Canada
- List of international professional associations
- The Association of British Columbia Land Surveyors
- Institution of Engineers
- AVRE
- List of roles in the British Army
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Further reading
- Boothby, Charles (2011). With the Royal Engineers in the Peninsula & France. Leonaur. ISBN 978-0-85706-781-4.
- Brazier, C. C. H. (2004). XD Operations. Secret British Missions Denying Oil to the Nazis. Pen and Sword. ISBN 1-84415-136-0.
- Boyd, Derek (1975). Royal Engineers. Cooper. ISBN 0-85052-197-1.
- 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. ISBN 978-1-84884-684-5.
- Daniell, A. P. de T. (2000). Mediterranean Safari March 1943 – October 1944. Orphans Press. ISBN 0-7212-0816-9.
- Duke, Sir Gerald (1982). The History of the Royal Engineer Yacht Club. Pitman Press. ISBN 0-946403-00-7.
- Durie, William (2012). The British Garrison Berlin 1945–1994: nowhere to go ... a pictorial historiography of the British Military occupation / presence in Berlin. Berlin: Vergangenheitsverlag (OCLC 978161722.
- Edwards, Colonel G. F. The History of Central Volunteer Headquarters Royal Engineers. Institution of Royal Engineers.
- Eke, Richard (1997). A Game of Soldiers. Digaprint. ISBN 0-9534264-0-8.
- Emden, Richard Van (2009). Sapper Martin, The Secret War Diary of Jack Martin. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-4088-0311-0.
- 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. ISBN 1-873547-30-7.
- Gander, Terry (1985). The Royal Engineers. I. Allan. ISBN 0-7110-1517-1.
- 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. ISBN 1-86838-023-8.
- Hall, Lieutenant Colonel L. J. (1919). Inland Water Transport in Mesopotamia. Naval & Military Press. ISBN 1-84342-952-7.
- Hall, Malcom (2010). From Ballon to Boxkite. The Royal Engineers and Early British Aeronautics. Amberley Press. ISBN 978-1-84868-992-3.
- Hartcup, Guy (2006). Code Name Mulberry. The Planning – Building & Operation of the Normandy Harbours. Pen and Sword. ISBN 1-84415-434-3.
- 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. ISBN 0-85059-865-6.
- Hudson, S. A. M. (2010). UXB Malta. Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal 1940–44. The History Press. ISBN 978-0-7524-5635-5.
- Hunt, H. J. (1986). Bombs & Booby Traps. Romsey Medal Centre. ISBN 978-0948251191.
- Macintosh, Hugh (2000). Middle East Movers, Royal Engineers Transportation in the Suez Canal Zone 1947–1956. North Kent Books. ISBN 0-948305-10-X.
- Mortimer, Gerald (1993). Never a Shot in Anger. Square One Publications. ISBN 1-872017-71-1.
- Napier, Gerald (2005). Follow the Sapper: An Illustrated History of the Corps of Royal Engineers. The Institution of Royal Engineers. ISBN 0-903530-26-0.
- Owen, James (2010). Danger UXB. The Heroic Story of the WWII Bomb Disposal Teams. Little, Brown. ISBN 978-1-4087-0195-9.
- Porter, Whitworth; Watson, Charles Moore (1889). History of the Corps of Royal Engineers. Longmans, Green.
- Raschen, Dan (1987). Send Port & Pyjamas!. Buckland Publications. ISBN 0-7212-0763-4.
- Raschen, Dan (1983). Wrong Again Dan! Karachi to Krakatoa. Buckland Publications. ISBN 0-7212-0638-7.
- Robinson, P.; Cave, N. (2011). The Underground War. Vimy Ridge to Arras. Pen and Sword. ISBN 978-1-84415-976-5.
- Salmon, M. J. Oh! To be a Sapper. The Institution of Royal Engineers. ISBN 0-9524911-4-1.
- 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. ISBN 978-1-927679-04-3.
- Smithers, A. J. (1991). Honourable Conquests: An Account of the Enduring Work of the Royal Engineers Throughout the Empire. Pen & Sword. ISBN 978-0-85052-725-4.
- Steadman, Peter (2001). Platoon Commander (Memoirs of a Royal Engineers Officer). Pentlandite Books. ISBN 1-85821-901-9.
- Tinsley, Terence (1992). Stick & String. Buckland Publishing. ISBN 0-7212-0897-5.
- 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. ISBN 1-872017-84-3.
- Walker, Eric. Don't Annoy The Enemy. Gernsey Press Co.
- Watkins, Leonard (1996). A Sapper's War. Minerva Press. ISBN 1-85863-715-5.
- 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. ISBN 978-0-85052-537-3.
- ISBN 1-84415-051-8.
- Drainage Manual – Revised Edition, 1907, by Locock and Tyndale.
- 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. ISBN 0-903530-28-7.
External links
- 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