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

Also see

Regimental History

History of the Corps of Royal Engineers has been published in twelve volumes, the first two being available online, refer below. The other volumes are

  • Volume III: Covers the Sudan Campaigns and Boer War 1899-1902, by Colonel Sir Charles Watson. Volume IV 1885-1914. by Brigadier-General W. Baker Brown
  • Volume V, The Home Front, France Flanders and Italy in the First World War. Volume VI, Gallipoli, Macedonia, Egypt and Palestine 1914-18. Volume VII, Campaigns in Mesopotamia and East Africa, and the inter-war period, 1918-38.
  • Volume VIII, Campaigns in France and Belgium, 1939-40; Norway, Middle East, East Africa, Western Desert, North West Africa, and activities in the U.K. by Major-General R. P. Pakenham-Walsh. Volume IX, Campaigns in Sicily and Italy; the war against Japan; North-west Europe, 1944-45; minor and non-operational areas; post-war, 1945-48 by Major-General R. P. Pakenham-Walsh.
  • Volume X, 1945-1960. Volume XI 1960 to 1980. Volume XII 1980-2000.

External Links

Historical Books Online

Volume 1 1837 Volume 2 1838 Volume 3 1839 Volume 4 1840 Volume 5 1842 Volume 7 1845 Volume 8 1845 Volume 10 1849
Note that the volumes which are digitised specifically for Archive.org may have better plans and maps compared with those that are, or are copied from, Google Books. An example is the books from the University of Toronto
For some papers from these volumes, see 1st Afghan War, Battle of Meeanee, 1st Sikh War, 2nd China War and Abyssinian Campaign. Other papers include

References