Corps of Royal Engineers

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