Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The first nine Royal Engineer Tunnelling Companies, numbers 170 to 178, were each commanded by a regular RE officer – they comprised: five officers and 269 sappers, aided by temporarily attached infantrymen as required, (which almost doubled the companies' number).
506 Specialist Team Royal Engineers (W) 507 Specialist Team Royal Engineers (R) 509 Specialist Team Royal Engineers (PI) 526 Specialist Team Royal Engineers (Wks) 66 Works Group [8] (Air Support) 502 Specialist Team Royal Engineers (FP) 516 Specialist Team Royal Engineers (BP) 521 Specialist Team Royal Engineers (WD) 528 Specialist Team Royal ...
A service number or roll number is an identification code used to identify a person within a large group. ... Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers: ...
Royal Engineers embarking on a ship for Normandy, 9 June 1944 Royal Engineers recruitment poster. 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.
Blue plaque at Clifford's Fort, North Shields, marking the HQ of the Tyne Division Submarine Miners (Volunteers).. The Submarine Mining Service was a branch of the Royal Engineers (RE) tasked with defending Britain's dockyards using fixed mines (also known as 'torpedoes' in the early days) and later electric searchlights.
Arm of service marks began with the use of service initials, such as S. & M. (Sappers and Miners), which pre-dated the RE (Royal Engineers). During World War I, the system of identification developed as a result of necessity; formation signs were created before being abandoned after the war ended.
The 178th Tunnelling Company was one of the tunnelling companies of the Royal Engineers created by the British Army during World War I.The tunnelling units were occupied in offensive and defensive mining involving the placing and maintaining of mines under enemy lines, as well as other underground work such as the construction of deep dugouts for troop accommodation, the digging of subways ...
2nd Field Battalion, Royal Engineers; 10 (Orkney) Troop, Royal Engineers; 29 Armoured Engineer Squadron; 58th (Chemical Warfare) Company, Royal Engineers; 58th (Porton) Company, Royal Engineers; 58th Artizan Works Company, Royal Engineers; 58th Mechanical Equipment Company, Royal Engineers; 590 Specialist Team, Royal Engineers (Explosive ...