Corps of Royal Engineers
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Known as the Royal Engineers (RE) or commonly as the Sappers.
Chronology
- 1716 Corps of Engineers consisting of officers only formed by the Board of Ordnance
- 1772 Soldier Artificer Company comprising other ranks raised in Gibraltar
- 1787 officer corps became the Royal Corps of Engineers. Corps of Royal Military Artificers comprising NCOs and private raised
- 1797 Gibraltar company absorbed by the Corps of Royal Military Artificers
- 1812 Corps of Royal Military Artificers became Corps of Royal Sappers and Miners
- 1856 Royal Engineers and Royal Sappers and Miners became a unified corps as the Corps of Royal Engineers
- 1862 absorbed the British officers and men of the engineer corps of the East India Company
External Links
Royal Engineers Wikipedia
Corps of Royal Engineers regiments.org
Historical Books Online
History of the Corps of Royal Engineers Vol I by Maj-Gen Whitworth Porter 1889
