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unusual facts about Corps of Royal Engineers



Gilliflower

The rose and gillyflower appear on the station badge of RAF Waterbeach in Cambridgeshire, and subsequently on the badge of 39 Engineer Regiment based at Waterbeach Barracks.

Robert Beatson

He was educated for the military profession, and on one of his title-pages describes himself as 'late of his majesty's corps of Royal Engineers'.


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Frederiksberg Park

He commissioned the eminent Swedish architect Nicodemus Tessin to draw a proposal and the final plan was subsequently made by Hans Heinrich Scheel, a captain in the Corps of Royal Engineers.