The penultimate match of the season was against the Aldershot-based Royal Engineers who had recently won the Hampshire Senior Cup for the second successive year.
After that, perhaps a few days later, about 50 Arabs from the village were collected by the RUR and some attached Royal Engineers.
His grandfather had served with the Royal Engineers in World War I, and settled in Cork and then Kerry afterwards where he worked with the Post Office creating Ireland's telephone network.
In 1940 Robbins obtained a commission in the Survey Branch of the Royal Engineers and was posted to West Africa.
Royal Artificers, a corps of the British army which in 1813 became the Royal Sappers and Miners, which in 1856 merged into the Royal Engineers
ARRE, Assault Regiment, Royal Engineers, a unit of the British Royal Engineers, part of the 79th Armoured Division during World War II
In the 1920s and 1930s the company was run by Sir Edmund's son, Sir Keith Nuttall, 2nd Baronet (1901–1941), who served in the Royal Engineers in the Second World War.
After studying at Cheltenham and the Royal Agricultural College Basil Neame served in the Royal Engineers and Madras Sappers and Miners in India, Burma and Malaysia from 1941 to 1946.
On 20 February 1856, Lieutenant Frederick E.B. Beaumont of the Royal Engineers was granted a British patent for improvements to the Adams revolver which allowed them to be cocked and fired either cocking the hammer as in Colt single-action revolvers, or by just pulling the trigger.
The architect is unknown; Colonel Pilkington of the Royal Engineers was in charge of the work.
On the outbreak of the First World war Symonds left his medical studies and joined the British Army, serving as a despatch rider in the motorcycle section of the Royal Engineers.
Roebuck was subsequently commissioned into the regular Army Royal Engineers via the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
The existing star-shaped fortifications were built by the United Kingdom between 1820 and 1831 under the direction of Lieutenant Colonel Elias Walker Durnford of the Royal Engineers, and incorporated a section of the French enceinte (enclosure) of 1745.
In October 1950, he was called up for his national service, joining 4 Training Regiment of the Royal Engineers.
The Royal Engineers stationed there constructed two per day; between April and June 1941, they were able to build three dummy Royal Tank Regiments, and another in November that same year.
William Le Poer Trench, third son of the third Earl, was a Colonel in the Royal Engineers and briefly represented County Galway in the House of Commons.
Wilcox was born in Berlin, after her father was stationed in the city as part of the Royal Engineers, she was brought up in Newcastle where she stayed to complete a degree in English and History.
One of the first major inquiries conducted by the newly formed Railway Inspectorate was conducted by Captain Simmons of the Royal Engineers, and his report suggested that repeated flexing of the girder weakened it substantially.
The fort was built by the British Royal Engineers in 1794 at an elevation of approximately 947 feet over Road Town.
Perhaps appropriately, by the mid-20th century it had been turned into a store depot for the Soldier Artificers' successors, the Royal Engineers.
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He was one of the first members of the Soldier Artificer Company, a predecessor to today's Royal Engineers, and rose to be the Company's senior non-commissioned officer.
Capt. Hugh E. Mitchell (3 December 1849 – 16 August 1937) was a Scottish member of the Royal Engineers who later became a barrister.
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In his youth he was a keen footballer who played for the Royal Engineers in the 1872 FA Cup Final and appeared for Scotland in two of the representative matches played against England in 1871 and 1872.
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ian Douglas Campbell-Gray (14 July 1901 – 21 March 1946) was a British soldier serving in the Royal Engineers.
Colonel Robert Morse of the Royal Engineers, Gibraltar's senior engineer at the time, was vehemently opposed as he feared that it would weaken the northern defences.
The team that carried out the first ascent was composed of Commander John Highton, Royal Navy (Leader), Captain Chris Hurran, Royal Engineers, and Lieutenant Mike Wimpenny, Royal Marines.
Following education at Strathallan School and training at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Kirkland's permanent commission in the Royal Engineers as a second lieutenant was confirmed on 9 October 1976 (dated 6 March 1976).
Most of the village's buildings were blown up by the Royal Engineers, who used them for demolition practice.
Edward Oscar Pearce (12/9/1885 - 31/8/1963) awarded an Order of the British Empire (military) in 1919 whilst a Captain (acting Major) in the Royal Engineers.
Born in Shropshire, his plans to train as a veterinarian were interrupted by Second World War service in a munitions factory and the Royal Engineers.
The Museum covers the history of Army aviation from the Balloon sections of the Royal Engineers, through the establishment of the Royal Flying Corps in 1912 and Air Observation Post (AOP)Squadrons.
The eldest son, John, died in service with the Royal Engineers in 1848 aged 27, while his younger sons Geoffrey Hornby and James John Hornby had lengthy and successful careers in the Royal Navy and education respectively.
Clutterbuck was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1937 after graduating in mechanical sciences from Cambridge.
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'.
From 1970 to 1983 he served as a geologist with the Royal Engineers.
An intensive programme of fortification was begun; the designs being overseen by Major William Jervois of the Royal Engineers, who was secretary to the Commission.
Just a mile outside of the townsite, the Engineer's camp developed into a settlement of its own-- the area is still known as Sapperton.
Purchased by the council in 1938, the pier like others was sectioned during World War II, by having part of the deck removed by the Royal Engineers to guard against Nazi invasion.
Seaford has strong ties with the military as many of their past and present players have fought for the country and also within the last few years have had a player, Steven Dann, serving within 16 Air Assault Brigade, one of the worlds Elite rapid response units and now 3rd Battalion Princess of Wales Royal Regiment, Keiren Perkins is serving in 1st Battalion Princess of Wales Royal Regiment and Chris Taylor in the Royal Engineers.
However, the Royal Bengal Engineers were amalgamated with the Royal Engineers of the British Army.
Adlam served in the Second World War with the Royal Engineers (Movement Control Section), and achieved the rank of lieutenant colonel.
His Historical Sketch of the Defences of Malta was printed for the Royal Engineers’ Institute at Chatham in 1879, and Historical Sketch of the Coast Defences of England appeared in the Royal Engineer Institute Occasional Papers (vol. XII, paper ii, 1886).
On 19 July 1941 Major R. E. Holloway, Royal Engineers, forwarded a design from a 1924 patent by Otto Popper of the Danube International Commission concerning a barge transporter for Danube barges.
The following year, Ruth Bryan Leavitt married Major Reginald A. Owen, a British Army officer, whom she met while studying voice in Germany.
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Oxford University and the Chatham-based Royal Engineers were among 28 entrants to the competition in the 1873–74 season.
In the hour before kick-off, the crowd was entertained by the bands of the Royal Engineers and the Chatham Naval Dockyard.
Yachts belonging to members of certain long-established British yacht clubs, such as the Royal Engineers Yacht Club, The Royal Motor Yacht Club, the Royal Ulster Yacht Club and the Royal Northern & Clyde Yacht Club.
To maintain security for the flight trials, the Dunne D.1 was taken to Blair Atholl in Scotland by a team of Royal Engineers in July 1907.
Major General Elias Walker Durnford R.E (28 July 1774 – 8 March 1850) was the builder of the Citadel, Quebec City.
Its potential to provoke United States annexation ambitions within the goldfields, prompted the governor to send newly appointed Chief Justice Begbie, the colony's chief of police Chartres Brew and a contingent of Royal Engineers and Royal Marines to intervene.
Lieutenant-General Henry Wray CMG (1 January 1826 – 6 April 1900) was a Royal Engineers officer who arrived in Fremantle on 12 December 1851 and was responsible for carrying out the construction plans for Fremantle Prison for Edmund Henderson.
Before Bordon was being built as an army camp by the Royal Engineers, the whole area surrounding Whitehill and Greatham was made up of woodland which is known as present day Woolmer Forest.
a squad of Royal Engineers soldiers were dispatched to assemble and test the Bristol Boxkite.
The town is now host to 26 Engineer Regiment, Royal Engineers based at the depot, the barracks area is named 'Corunna Barracks' (after the 1809 Battle of Corunna of the Peninsular War where Sir John Moore fell in battle. Corunna is the anglicised form of La Coruña; the city is perhaps well known for the football team Deportivo La Coruna).
Following a proposal developed by Lt Col Adrian Simpson that a small number of stations located around Britain would not work, the task of developing a comprehensive listening organization was given to Ralph Mansfield, 4th Baron Sandhurst, an enthusiastic amateur radio operator who had served with the Royal Engineers Signal Service during World War I, and had been commissioned as a Major in the Royal Corps of Signals in 1939.
Mountjoy was designed by the British military engineering officer, Captain Joshua Jebb, Royal Engineers and opened in 1850, based on the design of London's Pentonville Prison also designed by Jebb.
The palace is designed in the Regency style by the British architect George Whitmore, who was a Colonel and later a Major-General in the Royal Engineers.
It began playing challenge matches in early 1897, initially against the three existing teams in England: Niagara, Brighton and the Royal Engineers.
Moody was also a Colonel in the Royal Engineers, and was the commander of the Columbia Detachment, the force that was brought to BC to establish British order during the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush.
In 1941, he joined the Royal Engineers, but the following year was commissioned in the Coldstream Guards (with which members of his family had served since 1769, including his brothers George and Evelyn, who had been killed during the withdrawal from Dunkirk) of the Guards Armoured Division and was sent to the cavalry wing of Sandhurst to train as a tank commander.
In September 1855, Smith was gazetted to Lieutenant and in the following October was chosen to lead a small group of Royal Engineers bound to help Charles Thomas Newton's archaeological mission to the remains of the ancient civilisation at Knidos in Turkey.
The major change in staff working was the amalgamation of the Directorate of Equipment Management with Royal Engineers (RE), Royal Corps of Transport (RCT), Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC) and Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) staff branches.